M 5.6 in Mozambique on 08 Mar 2018 08:49 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 1136958
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 6.41 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.7551 , 35.4341
Event Date: 08 Mar 2018 08:49 UTC
08 Mar 2018 10:49 Local
Exposed Population: 3000000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2018 09:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Mozambique)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Mozambique= 6.6; Malawi= 6.3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.2 1.2
us1000d1cy Scaled population (vector) 3.17  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

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