M 4.6 in Yemen on 22 Nov 2017 03:49 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 1127089
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.8708 , 52.0313
Event Date: 22 Nov 2017 03:49 UTC
22 Nov 2017 06:49 Local
Exposed Population:
About 41000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2017 04:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.9 (Yemen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bspd Scaled population (vector) 4.01  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.33  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),