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Assam Earthquake 6.4M HitS India

Earthquake

Severity score43 / 100 · Moderate

How the score is calculated

The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.

Affected people
1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
Deaths
1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
Displaced people
1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
Casualties
100 or more: +8
Story wording
+10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.

Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.

This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.

Last verified29 Apr 2021
Date
Status
CLOSED
Aid Zone
ASIA
Countries
India
Agency
ECHO

Historical record

Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07

Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.

Permanent node 724 · Historical archive

In brief

  • What happenedApowerful earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted Assam and other parts of the Northeast on Wednesday morning.
  • How many affectedAffected persons: 10,410,000
  • What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.

What changed

First retained snapshot

No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.

Situation

Apowerful earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted Assam and other parts of the Northeast on Wednesday morning. Seven aftershocks were recorded in the hours after the first quake shook up the region. The earthquake originated in Tezpur in Assam and tremors were felt even in North Bengal and other parts of t

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WorldsAid verification

A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.

Verified figures

Affected persons
10,410,000 retained at 2021-04-29

What we knew when

  1. WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
  2. Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.

Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.

Provenance

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Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz

Record integrity:
VerifiedSHA-256 3c03bd868bf83bf66bc1a60961c7dbe51154c225394efa77443ec76bc64495b0

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