M 5 in Botswana on 05 Apr 2017 00:55 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 1109428
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.5955 , 25.0491
Event Date: 05 Apr 2017 00:55 UTC
05 Apr 2017 02:55 Local
Exposed Population:
About 11000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2017 01:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Botswana)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008egm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 376 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

فرار المئات بعد 3 زلازل في الفيليبينSun, 09 Apr 2017 00:32:00 +0200.

فر المئات من سكان المناطق الساحلية في إقليم يقع جنوبي العاصمة الفيليبينية إلى مناطق أكثر ارتفاعا خشية وقوع موجة مد عاتية (تسونامي) امس بعد سلسلة من الهزات الأرضية على جزيرة لوزون الرئيسية. وقالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأميركية إن 3 زلازل ترا
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ثلاثة زلازل متتالية تزرع الرعب في الفلبينSat, 08 Apr 2017 22:26:00 +0200.

ذكر متحدث باسم الرئاسة الفلبينية أن ثلاثة زلازل متتالية ضربت الفلبين، اليوم السبت ، مما ألحق دمارا بالمنازل والمباني، وأجبر السكان القاطنين بالقرب من السواحل على إخلاء منازلهم. وحث المتحدث الرئاسي إرنستو أبيلا المواطنين على "الاحتفاظ بهدوئه
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As experts make sense of quakes, Batangas townsfolk wrestles with fear ... Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:54:00 +0200.

Multiple earthquakes shook up southern Luzon on Saturday afternoon, causing visible damage to various infrastructure and people to seek safer ground. The first tremor, a magnitude-5.6, was felt at 3:07 p.m. with the epicenter near Mabini t
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Officials cracking down on poaching of a slippery, squiggly and valuab ... Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:25:00 +0200.

A massive, years-long undercover operation has led to arrests and guilty pleas up and down the East Coast of poachers and traffickers who dealt in a slippery, squiggly and valuable commodity: baby eels. William Sheldon, who runs one of the
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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.
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),