M 5 in South Africa on 20 Nov 2016 15:29 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 1098886
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -44.2391 , 39.1492
Event Date: 20 Nov 2016 15:29 UTC
20 Nov 2016 18:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Nov 2016 19:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ax6 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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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),