M 4.6 in India on 28 Jul 2020 14:38 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 1227978
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.2346 , 93.2845
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 14:38 UTC
28 Jul 2020 20:08 Local
Exposed Population:
1630000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 14:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; Bangladesh= 5.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b5cc Scaled population (vector) 6.08  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Latest media headlines

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Growing floods toll hampers coronavirus efforts in South AsiaSat, 01 Aug 2020 13:38:00 +0200.

The death toll from monsoon floods across South Asia has increased to more than 350 in recent weeks, with villages still submerged and tens of thousands displaced as authorities battle with rising coronavirus cases. The torrential downpours
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Growing toll from monsoon floods hampers South Asia virus effortsFri, 31 Jul 2020 09:49:00 +0200.

The death toll from monsoon floods across South Asia has increased to more than 340 people over recent weeks, with villages still submerged and tens of thousands displaced as authorities battle with rising coronavirus cases. The torrential
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Growing toll from monsoon floods hampers South Asia virus effortsThu, 30 Jul 2020 20:29:00 +0200.

The death toll from monsoon floods across South Asia has increased to more than 340 people over recent weeks, with villages still submerged and tens of thousands displaced as authorities battle with rising coronavirus cases. The torrential
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Growing toll from monsoon floods hampers South Asia virus effortsThu, 30 Jul 2020 15:29:00 +0200.

The torrential downpours across the densely populated region are critical to replenishing rivers and groundwater, but also cause widespread death and destruction. In India's poorest state Bihar, home to 125 million people, 11 have died and
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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),