M 4.9 in Myanmar on 25 Feb 2021 02:34 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 1257386
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.8218 , 95.9347
Event Date: 25 Feb 2021 02:34 UTC
25 Feb 2021 09:04 Local
Exposed Population:
4450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2021 03:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000ddgz Scaled population (vector) 6.54  
  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

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World Earthquake Report for Thursday, 25 February 2021Thu, 25 Feb 2021 06:37:00 +0100.

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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),