M 5.2 in South Africa on 03 Apr 2017 03:08 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1109251
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.9219 , 26.761
Event Date: 03 Apr 2017 03:08 UTC
03 Apr 2017 05:08 Local
Exposed Population: 330000 people in MMI
1120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2017 03:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (South Africa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.2 1.2
us10008e0f 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 412 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),