M 5.1 in India on 21 Jan 2026 21:43 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 1520671
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2574 , 97.0361
Event Date: 21 Jan 2026 21:43 UTC
22 Jan 2026 03:13 Local
Exposed Population:
4 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2026 22:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rr7m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),