M 5.6 in Yemen on 05 Dec 2023 07:31 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 1404092
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.2855 , 47.4426
Event Date: 05 Dec 2023 07:31 UTC
05 Dec 2023 10:31 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2023 07:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Yemen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lgch Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),