M 4.6 in Myanmar on 24 Sep 2024 10:37 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 1446993
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 127.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 21.1143 , 94.985
Event Date: 24 Sep 2024 10:37 UTC
24 Sep 2024 17:07 Local
Exposed Population:
5.3 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 24 Sep 2024 13:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nu1v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),