M 4.8 in The Democratic Republic of Congo on 04 Aug 2020 11:44 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 1228838
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4843 , 22.6048
Event Date: 04 Aug 2020 11:44 UTC
04 Aug 2020 13:44 Local
Exposed Population:
2220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2020 12:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us6000b94p Scaled population (vector) 6.33  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 471 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake of 3.8 magnitude hits Odisha’s Ganjam and Gajapati district ... Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:43:00 +0200.

Tremors were felt in Patrapur of Ganjam district and Mohana area in Gajapati district as a result of the 3.8 magnitude earthquake on Aug 8, 2020. An earthquake of 3.8 magnitude hit Odisha’s Gajapati and Ganjam districts on Saturday morning
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Deprimida 'ma non troppo'Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:40:00 +0200.

Compartir nuestra melancolía con los demás es sano, según los psicólogos, pero tiene sus consecuencias. Y cuando quien se desahoga es una figura mundialmente conocida, esas consecuencias pueden alcanzar proporciones planetarias. Es lo que l
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Thousands report feeling 4.7 magnitude earthquake south of Nelson "A q ... Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:01:00 +0200.

Thousands are reporting feeling a magnitude 4.7 earthquake. The quake struck at 7:51pm on Saturday, south of Nelson and north-west of Kaikoura, at a depth of 57km. Within minutes, more than 2500 people had reported feeling the shake on GeoN
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Earthquake of 3.8 magnitude hits Odisha’s Ganjam, GajapatiSat, 08 Aug 2020 10:55:00 +0200.

‘It’s centre was located near to Paribheta and Tandiguda locations of Ganjam district, which is near to R Udaygiri area,’ the MET office said on its official twitter post. A mild earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale hit parts of O
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),