M 4.6 in Myanmar on 21 Dec 2021 05:04 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 1302705
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 39.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.6744 , 96.9825
Event Date: 21 Dec 2021 05:04 UTC
21 Dec 2021 10:34 Local
Exposed Population:
330 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Dec 2021 06:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; India= 4.6; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ge34 Scaled population (vector) 5.17  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),