M 4.9 in South Of Africa on 09 Apr 2017 04:11 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 1109810
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -53.3661 , 25.362
Event Date: 09 Apr 2017 04:11 UTC
09 Apr 2017 06:11 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Apr 2017 04:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008fzh 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: 318 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Homeless ‘tsunami’ as 40 sleep on one streetThu, 13 Apr 2017 02:46:00 +0200.

A leading homelessness campaigner has said services for the homeless are in “turmoil”, as more than 40 people slept rough on one street. Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) conduct outreach services in the capital every night, providing food
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من المسؤول عن محاولة حشر العهد؟ - ابتسام شديدThu, 13 Apr 2017 00:54:00 +0200.

لا يمكن بالنسبة الى الكثير من السياسيين الجزم في من يتحمل مسؤولية هذا الانقسام العامودي الذي وقع على الساحة السياسية وهذا الاصطفاف على خلفية الخلاف حول القانون الانتخابي بعدما رفضت كل الصيغ الانتخابية التي قدمها التيار الوطني الحر وبعد ما ق
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Houses damaged as earthquake hits southern PhilippinesWed, 12 Apr 2017 23:06:00 +0200.

MANILA • A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit the southern Philippines at dawn yesterday, damaging dozens of houses and sending people fleeing into the streets for safety, the authorities said. There were no immediate reports of serious casualtie
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1:52 Japan,UN to Work Jointly on Natural DisastersWed, 12 Apr 2017 20:26:00 +0200.

Tokyo, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) A group of Japanese lawmakers pledged to work with the United Nations to promote international contributions, in order to deal with natural disasters, the press reported Wednesday. Robert Glasser, special repr
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),