M 5.3 in Tanzania on 29 Apr 2017 10:53 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 1111585
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1323 , 29.9683
Event Date: 29 Apr 2017 10:53 UTC
29 Apr 2017 13:53 Local
Exposed Population:
460000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2017 11:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.5 (Tanzania)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us10008m05 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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Latest media headlines

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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),