M 4.9 in India on 23 Dec 2021 22:39 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 1303125
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.0899 , 92.5625
Event Date: 23 Dec 2021 22:39 UTC
24 Dec 2021 04:39 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2021 03:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gexl Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),