M 5.1 in South Of Africa on 23 Jan 2017 07:13 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 1103870
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.9127 , 31.1489
Event Date: 23 Jan 2017 07:13 UTC
23 Jan 2017 09:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2017 07:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007uy3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1400 | About casualties: 377 | Last hour: 0

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10 killed as avalanches hit Indian Army post, patrolFri, 27 Jan 2017 06:05:00 +0100.

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Chile's worst wildfires destroy town, death toll at 10Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:04:00 +0100.

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Chile's worst wildfires destroy town, death toll at 10Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:59:00 +0100.

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