M 4.9 in India on 04 Jan 2026 22:47 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 1518081
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.326 , 92.3084
Event Date: 04 Jan 2026 22:47 UTC
05 Jan 2026 04:17 Local
Exposed Population: 9.6 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2026 02:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rmhd Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),