M 4.6 in Bangladesh on 24 Oct 2020 03:21 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 1240671
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 41.27 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0338 , 92.2235
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 03:21 UTC
24 Oct 2020 09:21 Local
Exposed Population:
12300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 04:08 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
us6000ccf2 Scaled population (vector) 6.8  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake hits BangladeshSat, 24 Oct 2020 11:22:00 +0200.

Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 24 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on Richter Scale and depth of 50 km struck Bangladesh at 08:51 am on Saturday. "An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on Richter Scale and depth 50 km hit Bangladesh at 08:51 IST
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OP-ED: The spectre of apathyThu, 22 Oct 2020 23:35:00 +0200.

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AREVA mobilizes support to help earthquake victims in ChinaWed, 14 Oct 2020 11:49:00 +0200.

News brief. GROUP / FOUNDATION AND PATRONAGE. May 19, 2008. Following the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province, AREVA in China quickly mobilized to support the Chinese Red Cross emergency response fund and will make contributions of close
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Rapists are beasts: PMTue, 13 Oct 2020 20:42:00 +0200.

Death Penalty for Rapists Rapists are beasts: PM New law to protect girls, she says Special Correspondent 14 October, 2020 12:00 AM Describing rapists as beasts, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said her government incorporated the
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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),