M 5.5 in India on 03 Jan 2017 09:09 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 1102381
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 36.15 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.0161 , 92.0062
Event Date: 03 Jan 2017 09:09 UTC
03 Jan 2017 14:39 Local
Exposed Population: 13830000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jan 2017 09:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bangladesh)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bangladesh= 5.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10007pfk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),