M 5.1 in Tanzania on 13 Jul 2016 03:01 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 1089890
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4875 , 35.9531
Event Date: 13 Jul 2016 03:01 UTC
13 Jul 2016 06:01 Local
Exposed Population:
1364880 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jul 2016 03:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006361 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 269 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

La Moneda pone a ex fiscal que exculpó a Bachelet en el 27-F a la cabe ... Sun, 17 Jul 2016 02:50:00 +0200.

La abogada y ex fiscal Solange Huerta asumirá como nueva directora del Servicio Nacional de Menores (Sename), luego de la salida del también abogado Hugo Herrera, decisión que se enmarca dentro de las “medidas drásticas” anunciadas por la m
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Bachelet nombra como directora del Sename a la fiscal que la interrogó ... Sun, 17 Jul 2016 02:07:00 +0200.

Decisión forma parte de las medidas drásticas anunciadas por la secretaria de Estado. La fiscal Huerta en 2010 fue designada por el Fiscal Nacional de ese entonces, Sabas Chahuán, participó en las investigaciones de posibles errores cometid
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En Antofagasta se realizó primer simulacro de remoción en masaSun, 17 Jul 2016 00:59:00 +0200.

16/07/2016 | 16:00 | Antofagasta. Con sirenas y altavoces de carabineros y Bomberos se dio inició al primer simulacro de riesgo aluvional en Antofagasta Cerca de mil personas participaron en el primer e inédito simulacro de evacuación en el
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Today in history, July 17Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:46:00 +0200.

1918: Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. 1936: The Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic. 1944: During World War II, 320 men, t
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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),