M 5.5 in Myanmar on 27 Nov 2015 08:33 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1073710
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 22.42 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.4973 , 94.8237
Event Date: 27 Nov 2015 08:33 UTC
27 Nov 2015 15:03 Local
Exposed Population:
3354492 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2015 08:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.4 1.4
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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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),