M 4.6 in India on 17 Nov 2018 18:51 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 1162576
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 25.31 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.6355 , 94.467
Event Date: 17 Nov 2018 18:51 UTC
18 Nov 2018 00:51 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2018 19:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ht9e Scaled population (vector) 2.72  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.08  
  Country Vulnerability -0.39  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 74 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Un estadounidense muere a manos de una tribu aislada de IndiaWed, 21 Nov 2018 18:29:00 +0100.

El 16 de noviembre, John Chau, un estadounidense de 27 años, fue rodeado y abatido apenas entrar en la isla Sentinel del Norte, donde vive esta tribu. Está oficialmente prohibido visitar esta isla. El estadounidense pagó a unos pescadores l
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TRIBAL INSTINCT World’s most ruthless tribe that killed US tourist lov ... Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:13:00 +0100.

LITTLE is known about the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island and what we do now is downright baffling. The Sentinelese tribe are an indigenous people who have lived on, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, for around 55,000 yea
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Isolated Indian tribe kill American intruderWed, 21 Nov 2018 16:30:00 +0100.

PORT BLAIR, INDIA: Some of the world’s last tribespeople untouched by modern civilisation have killed an American who ventured illegally onto their remote island, Indian police said on Wednesday. John Chau, 27, was hit by a hail of arrows a
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Asesinan a un turista en Sentinel del Norte, la enigmática isla ocupad ... Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:20:00 +0100.

Un grupo de aborígenes ha asesinado presuntamente a un hombre en Sentinel del Norte, isla ubicada en el archipiélago de Andamán, propiedad de la India. si bien las autoridades desconocen por el momento cómo se produjo la muerte, sí creen qu
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),