M 4.7 in India on 16 May 2026 21:16 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 1541072
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 105.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.0317 , 93.7365
Event Date: 16 May 2026 21:16 UTC
17 May 2026 03:16 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 16 May 2026 21:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000sy9z 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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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),