M 4.7 in India on 28 Dec 2021 07:06 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 1303743
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 31.85 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.313 , 93.8615
Event Date: 28 Dec 2021 07:06 UTC
28 Dec 2021 12:36 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2021 07:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gft3 Scaled population (vector) 4.06  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.08  
  Country Vulnerability -0.39  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),