M 4.9 in Mozambique on 14 Oct 2015 09:10 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 1069103
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.7467 , 35.1051
Event Date: 14 Oct 2015 09:10 UTC
14 Oct 2015 11:10 Local
Exposed Population:
641749 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2015 09:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 212 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

En estado de emergenciaSun, 18 Oct 2015 07:31:00 +0200.

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Was Haiyan Worse Than The Indian Ocean Tsunami?Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:29:00 +0200.

An aerial view of the devastation of super Typhoon Haiyan as it battered a town in Samar province in central Philippines on Nov. 11, 2013. Survivors of the typhoon that swept through the central Philippines, killing an estimated 10,000 peop
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Typhoon Koppu: Homes destroyed, thousands displaced as massive typhoon ... Sun, 18 Oct 2015 06:09:00 +0200.

Typhoon Koppu has slammed into the main Philippines island of Luzon, destroying homes and displacing 10,000 people, disaster agency officials say There were no reports of casualties after the category-four typhoon made landfall around 1:00a
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Homes destroyed, thousands displaced as Typhoon Koppu slams into Phili ... Sun, 18 Oct 2015 06:02:00 +0200.

Typhoon Koppu has slammed into the main Philippines island of Luzon, destroying homes and displacing 10,000 people, disaster agency officials say There were no reports of casualties after the category-four typhoon made landfall around 1:00a
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),