M 5.9 in India on 25 Jan 2018 01:15 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 1131859
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.2698 , 91.7832
Event Date: 25 Jan 2018 01:15 UTC
25 Jan 2018 07:15 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2018 01:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cp4g Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 516 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

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(Di domenica 28 gennaio 2018) Nessuna isola è così lontana , al mondo, rispetto alle altre terre abitate più vicine : dista circa 1700 km dalla Terra della regina Maud (Antartide) e 2200 km da Cape Agulhas in Sudafrica. Un altro ... Forte
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Una scossa di terremoto dalla magnitudo assai rilevante (6.6 secondo le stime dell’USGS, “United States Geological Survey”) è stata registrata poche ore fa anche dai sismografi dell’INGV (Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia. Sala Si
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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),