M 5.2 in Mozambique on 10 Feb 2017 16:43 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 1105260
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.8742 , 35.5447
Event Date: 10 Feb 2017 16:43 UTC
10 Feb 2017 18:43 Local
Exposed Population:
770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Feb 2017 17:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Mozambique)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Mozambique= 6.6; Malawi= 6.3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
us20008iz7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),