M 5 in Mozambique on 29 Mar 2017 20:37 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 1108958
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.9261 , 41.0871
Event Date: 29 Mar 2017 20:37 UTC
29 Mar 2017 23:37 Local
Exposed Population:
About 97000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2017 20:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Mozambique)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Mozambique= 6.6; Tanzania= 6.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10008d53 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 198 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

18 new NMI swim records setSun, 02 Apr 2017 20:15:00 +0200.

Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation President John Hirsh confirmed that a total of 18 new NMI age group records were set during the SSC International Meet. En route to taking first place in his division, Tsunami Saipan Swimming Cen
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Colombia Mudslides: Mercy Corps Reports From MocoaSun, 02 Apr 2017 20:06:00 +0200.

BOGOTA, Colombia April 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Â The global organization Mercy Corps has a team on the ground in the city of Mocoa, the capital of the department of Putumayo in Colombia , following devastating mudslides that level
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Colombia Mudslides: Mercy Corps Reports From MocoaSun, 02 Apr 2017 19:19:00 +0200.

. Survivors urgently need food, clean water and blankets. BOGOTA, Colombia April 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The global organization Mercy Corps has a team on the ground in the city of Mocoa, the capital of the department of Putumay
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11:56 Escuelas en Japón servirán como centro de evacuación ante tsunam ... Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:15:00 +0200.

02 de abril de 2017, 11:56 Tokio, 2 abr (PL) Una escuela primaria de una ciudad al noreste de esta capital evacuará personas en su azotea en caso de tsunami, como parte de las estrategias en Japón para mitigar daños causados por esos evento
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),