M 5.9 in Tanzania on 10 Sep 2016 12:27 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 1093671
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 40 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.0302 , 31.5604
Event Date: 10 Sep 2016 12:27 UTC
10 Sep 2016 15:27 Local
Exposed Population: 490000 people in MMI
3490000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Sep 2016 05:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006nkx 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: 785 | About casualties: 229 | Last hour: 0

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Un terremoto de 6 grados sacude el oeste de las Islas SalomónWed, 14 Sep 2016 11:57:00 +0200.

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Experts Dispatched to Check Weekend EarthquakeWed, 14 Sep 2016 11:48:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),