M 4.6 in India on 05 Feb 2026 19:39 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 1523070
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.3275 , 88.1279
Event Date: 05 Feb 2026 19:39 UTC
06 Feb 2026 01:09 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2026 19:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nepal= 5.9; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000s6si 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),