M 5.5 in Bangladesh on 02 Mar 2013 01:30 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 123027
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 37.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.6899 , 92.2155
Event Date: 02 Mar 2013 01:30 UTC
02 Mar 2013 07:30 Local
Exposed Population:
14494778 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2013 02:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.2 1.2
usc000ff4h Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),