M 4.5 in India on 27 Dec 2025 12:42 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 1516949
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 38 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.721 , 92.3835
Event Date: 27 Dec 2025 12:42 UTC
27 Dec 2025 18:12 Local
Exposed Population:
1.7 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2025 13:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rl21 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),