M 4.8 in India on 17 Jul 2020 05:01 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 1226669
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.6984 , 95.0092
Event Date: 17 Jul 2020 05:01 UTC
17 Jul 2020 11:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jul 2020 05:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000aq5i Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 120 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Krishna-Godavari fault line may trigger quakesMon, 20 Jul 2020 09:49:00 +0200.

HYDERABAD: Researchers at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have found a major fault line along the coast in the Krishna-Godavari basin in Andhra Pradesh and predicted that it could trigger earthquakes and tsunamis in the future. The resear
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5 3 magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar India border-ANI - BW Businesswo ... Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:04:00 +0200.

New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale struck the Myanmar-India border on Friday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). No injuries or casualties have been report
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Previously unknown faults at the foot of the Himalaya discoveredSat, 18 Jul 2020 19:05:00 +0200.

Data from an oil and gas exploration company has now helped geologists discover a series of faults at the foot of the Himalaya. The international team notes that this fault system in the southeastern region of Nepal has the potential to cau
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Séisme en Papouasie, attente pour Parcoursup et un million de cas de C ... Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:44:00 +0200.

Covid: des médecins déplorent des contrôles insuffisants aux aéroports. Les professeurs d'hôpitaux parisiens Eric Caumes et Philippe Juvin ont déploré vendredi l'insuffisance des contrôles contre le coronavirus dans les aéroports français p
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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),