M 4.5 in Myanmar on 25 Feb 2021 07:50 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 1257412
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.9229 , 96.12
Event Date: 25 Feb 2021 07:50 UTC
25 Feb 2021 14:20 Local
Exposed Population:
3140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2021 08:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ddij Scaled population (vector) 6.4  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 15 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate earthquakes are wake-up call for building safety in citiesThu, 25 Feb 2021 06:41:00 +0100.

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale hit Mawlaik, Sagaing Region, on 20 February. On 28 November, 2019, a 5.4-magnitude quake, with epicentre 23 miles northeast of Thabeikkyin, jolted Mandalay Region and caused some damage to ho
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World Earthquake Report for Thursday, 25 February 2021Thu, 25 Feb 2021 06:37:00 +0100.

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake near Shwebo, Shwebo District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar (Burma), was reported only 20 minutes ago by Thailand's Earthquake Observation Division (TMD), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activi
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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),