M 5.1 in Southern India on 14 Jun 2020 14:43 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1222223
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.397 , 70.3603
Event Date: 14 Jun 2020 14:43 UTC
14 Jun 2020 20:13 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people in MMI
2510000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2020 17:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.7 (India)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Pakistan= 5.7; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000abp7 Scaled population (raster) 2.48  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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India - Earthquake (ECHO 15 Jun 2020)Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:01

  • On 14 and 15 June, the Indian state of Gujarat and Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir were struck by  earthquakes.
  • The earthquake which hit Gujarat at  14.43 UTC  was of 5,3 M at a depth of 10 km, occurred with epicentre approximately 11 km north-east of Bhachau City (Kutch district), and 118 km north-northwest of Rajkot City (Rajkot District). USGS PAGER estimates that up to 5,000 people were exposed to very strong and up to 112,000 to strong shaking.
  • In Jammu & Kashmir the earthquake struck at 4.36 am approximately 90 km east of Katra and measured 3,2 on the Richter scale.
  • There are no damage to property or life have been reported from the two states.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),