M 4.8 in Myanmar on 17 Sep 2015 18:34 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 1065973
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 78.23 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.5661 , 94.6695
Event Date: 17 Sep 2015 18:34 UTC
18 Sep 2015 01:04 Local
Exposed Population:
2616856 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2015 21:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.6 -0.6
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),