M 4.9 in Tanzania on 19 Mar 2017 10:35 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 1108179
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 12.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1596 , 38.1074
Event Date: 19 Mar 2017 10:35 UTC
19 Mar 2017 13:35 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Mar 2017 10:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.5 (Tanzania)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008t5l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),