M 5.6 in India on 21 Jun 2020 22:40 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 1223283
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 13.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.1226 , 93.2665
Event Date: 21 Jun 2020 22:40 UTC
22 Jun 2020 04:10 Local
Exposed Population: About 14000 people in MMI
1660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2020 02:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (India)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; Bangladesh= 5.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ag4u Scaled population (raster) 1  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),