M 4.7 in Uganda on 25 Feb 2017 17:19 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 1106453
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.4108 , 31.1139
Event Date: 25 Feb 2017 17:19 UTC
25 Feb 2017 20:19 Local
Exposed Population:
4140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2017 18:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.9 (Uganda)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008mew Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),