Overall Green Earthquake alert in Myanmar from 07 Oct 2021 18:28 UTC to 18:28

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M 5.6 in Myanmar from 07 Oct 2021 18:28 UTC to 18:28

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1289033
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	114.19 Km
Lat/Lon:	22.312 , 94.7455
Event Date:	07 Oct 2021 18:28 UTC 08 Oct 2021 00:58 Local
Exposed Population:	3.5 million in 100km
Inserted at:	18 Oct 2021 15:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
us6000fsrg	Scaled population (vector)	6.5
	C1 earthquake	0.89
	C2 earthquake	-0.28
	Country Vulnerability	-0.47
	INFORM_normalised	1.15

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Latest media headlines

Earthquake jolts parts of country 10/8/2021 8:40:00 AM.

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Steps taken to prevent lone wolf attacks: CRPF DG 10/8/2021 7:26:00 AM.

Meerut (Uttar Pradesh): Central Reserve Police Force, Director General, Kuldeep Singh on Thursday said that three incidents of lone wolf attacks happened in Jammu and. Kashmir recently but steps have been taken to prevent such attacks and t

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hits Myanmar 10/8/2021 7:00:00 AM.

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], October 8 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted Myanmar on Friday, according to National Center for Seismology. The epicentre of the quake was located at 144 kilometres West-North-West of Bur

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Myanmar: Magnitude-5.6 earthquake occurs west-northwest of Monywa at a.. 10/7/2021 9:53:00 PM.

Event. A magnitude-5.6 earthquake occurred in northern Myanmar at around 00:58 Oct. 8. The epicenter was about 46 km (28 miles) west-northwest of Monywa. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 114 km (71 miles), and light-to-moderate shaki

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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