M 4.6 in Myanmar on 05 Jan 2023 05:51 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 1353157
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 12.642 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.1399 , 95.9162
Event Date: 05 Jan 2023 05:51 UTC
05 Jan 2023 12:21 Local
Exposed Population:
8 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2023 06:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j28c Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),