M 4.5 in India on 30 Apr 2019 18:49 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 1178173
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 79.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.5292 , 94.6565
Event Date: 30 Apr 2019 18:49 UTC
01 May 2019 00:49 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Apr 2019 20:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003es9 Scaled population (vector) 2.74  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.08  
  Country Vulnerability -0.39  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),