M 5.5 in India on 04 Aug 2021 17:57 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 1280159
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 5.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.8472 , 94.085
Event Date: 04 Aug 2021 17:57 UTC
04 Aug 2021 23:57 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2021 18:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f27x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  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),