Overall Orange Earthquake in Bangladesh on 27 Feb 2026 07:52 UTC

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M 5.3 in Bangladesh on 27 Feb 2026 07:52 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 1526507
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Glide number:	EQ-2026-000025-BGD
Depth:	9.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	22.4513 , 89.1394
Event Date:	27 Feb 2026 07:52 UTC 27 Feb 2026 13:52 Local
Exposed Population:	5 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at:	27 Feb 2026 08:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.4 (Bangladesh)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Bangladesh= 5.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	1.1		1.1
us7000s0pc	Scaled population (vector)	3.18
	C1 rapid impact	-0.59
	C2 rapid impact	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.04

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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),

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