M 4.8 in South Of Africa on 16 Jan 2017 08:20 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 1103334
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -48.8595 , 31.15
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 08:20 UTC
16 Jan 2017 10:20 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 12:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ti6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),