M 5.4 in Uganda on 03 Jul 2013 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 1000373
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.5462 , 30.7955
Event Date: 03 Jul 2013 22:22 UTC
04 Jul 2013 01:22 Local
Exposed Population:
3708084 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jul 2013 00:44 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Sismo de de magnitud 7,3 en la escala de Richter afectó a Papúa Nueva ... Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:59:00 +0200.

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7.2 earthquake hits off Papua New Guinea USGSSun, 07 Jul 2013 21:54:00 +0200.

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),