M 5.6 in Myanmar on 29 Sep 2022 22:22 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 1339866
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 165.131 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0617 , 94.9275
Event Date: 29 Sep 2022 22:22 UTC
30 Sep 2022 04:52 Local
Exposed Population: 3.1 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2022 23:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ipft Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Latest media headlines

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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),