M 5.3 in India on 26 Feb 2025 20:55 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 1470251
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.3886 , 92.2421
Event Date: 26 Feb 2025 20:55 UTC
27 Feb 2025 02:25 Local
Exposed Population:
60 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2025 21:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us6000pvpc Scaled population (vector) 3.47  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),