M 4.5 in Myanmar on 18 Jul 2020 18:38 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 1226879
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 9.96 Km
Lat/Lon: 21.7841 , 97.0311
Event Date: 18 Jul 2020 18:38 UTC
19 Jul 2020 01:08 Local
Exposed Population:
3120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2020 21:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000aqyh Scaled population (vector) 6.03  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Psychologists, doctors in Mizoram's quake-hit areas to assist people d ... Mon, 20 Jul 2020 08:18:00 +0200.

The Mizoram government is sending psychologists and doctors to the remote villages of the state near the Myanmar border, hit by a series of earthquakes, to assist the people to deal with the mental trauma following the natural calamities. T
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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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Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update 28, 06 – 12 Jul 2020Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:26:00 +0200.

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),