M 5.5 in Mozambique on 22 Dec 2018 05:37 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 1165972
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Glide number: EQ-2018-000422-MOZ
Depth: 7.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6441 , 32.8008
Event Date: 22 Dec 2018 05:37 UTC
22 Dec 2018 07:37 Local
Exposed Population: About 47000 people in MMI
930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2018 05:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Mozambique)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Mozambique= 6.6; Zimbabwe= 5.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iw7g Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 32 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Earthquake hits ZimSun, 23 Dec 2018 21:19:00 +0100.

HARARE – An earthquake of a magnitude of 5,5 rattled most parts of the country yesterday morning. No injuries and infrastructure destructions were recorded although officials were still gathering information at the time of going to print. M
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Earthquake hits ZimbabweSun, 23 Dec 2018 20:50:00 +0100.

No injuries and infrastructure destructions were recorded although officials were still gathering information at the time of going to print. Meteorological Services Department (Met Department), director Kwangwari Marimira said the earth tre
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Plus de 100 maisons détruites dans un tremblement de terre au centre d ... Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:57:00 +0100.

Un séisme de magnitude 5,5 qui a frappé samedi matin la province de Manica, au centre du Mozambique, a détruit 108 maisons, ont annoncé dimanche les autorités locales. Selon l'Institut national de la gestion des catastrophes (INGC) du Mozam
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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),