M 4.9 in Myanmar on 31 Aug 2020 21:09 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 1232534
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 123.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.9255 , 95.2427
Event Date: 31 Aug 2020 21:09 UTC
01 Sep 2020 03:39 Local
Exposed Population:
830000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2020 21:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bfgi Scaled population (vector) 5.93  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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OP-ED: The climate-Covid double-punchSat, 29 Aug 2020 20:18:00 +0200.

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Why Aceh is a rare place of welcome for Rohingya refugeesTue, 25 Aug 2020 08:12:00 +0200.

In late June 2020, 99 Rohingya asylum seekers arrived by boat on the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh, having been stranded at sea for more than 120 days. As authorities deliberated about whether to allow the asylum seekers to disem
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2 strong earthquakes shake western Indonesia, no tsunamiWed, 19 Aug 2020 05:40:00 +0200.

USGS says the magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at a depth of 22 kilometers under the sea. It was centered in Bengkulu province on Sumatra island

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),