M 4.8 in Comoros on 12 Mar 2014 20:43 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 1027444
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.216 , 44.3187
Event Date: 12 Mar 2014 20:43 UTC
12 Mar 2014 23:43 Local
Exposed Population:
392569 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2014 23:16 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),