M 4.9 in India on 04 May 2021 22:31 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 1267504
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.6972 , 94.1794
Event Date: 04 May 2021 22:31 UTC
05 May 2021 04:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2021 23:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e06d Scaled population (vector) 2.39  
  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),