M 5.8 in Myanmar on 05 Apr 2024 12:45 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 1422765
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.5566 , 97.0128
Event Date: 05 Apr 2024 12:45 UTC
05 Apr 2024 19:15 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2024 13:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us7000ma59 Scaled population (raster) 1.43  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 299 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 24

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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), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),