Overall Green Earthquake alert in Zambia on 24 Feb 2017 00:32 UTC

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M 5.9 in Zambia on 24 Feb 2017 00:32 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 1106295
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	26.67 Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.4695 , 30.0847
Event Date:	24 Feb 2017 00:32 UTC 24 Feb 2017 02:32 Local
Exposed Population:	About 33000 people in MMI 320000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Feb 2017 05:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.5 (Tanzania)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Tanzania= 6.5; Zambia= 5.8

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
us20008lww	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Panic as earthquake aftershocks hit western Tanzania 2/24/2017 11:11:00 PM.

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- There was panic in parts of western Tanzania's region of Rukwa and Katavi as a 5.7 Richter Scale earthquake jolted the region around Lake Tanganyika, with tremors being felt deep into Zambia, Tanzania,

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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