M 4.8 in Myanmar on 29 Apr 2024 19:08 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 1426561
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.4454 , 94.2399
Event Date: 29 Apr 2024 19:08 UTC
30 Apr 2024 01:38 Local
Exposed Population:
1.5 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2024 19:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mv0v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 1

Light mag. 4.0 earthquake - 17 km north of Nyaungdon, Ayeyarwady, Myan ... 2024-05-03T16:40+0200.

User-reports for this quake (5) The first report about ground shaking reached us after only 3 minutes, before other agencies reported it. So far, we have received 5 reports for this quake from . The quake was reported to have been felt in u
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World News | 3 Indians in Myanmar Contacted Govt for Repatriation, One ... 2024-05-02T14:56+0200.

New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): In the case of Indian nationals who were duped with job offers in Myanmar, External Affairs Ministry on Thursday said that three Indians had contacted for repatriation and one has already been brought back. D
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Earthquake of magnitude 4.0 strikes Myanmar2024-05-01T19:26+0200.

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], May 1 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The epicentre of the earthquake was located at Latitude 26.34 and
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Earthquake of magnitude 4.0 strikes Myanmar2024-05-01T18:10+0200.

NAYPYIDAW [Myanmar]: An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The epicentre of the earthquake was located at Latitude 26.34 and Longitude 95.
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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),