M 5 in South Africa on 28 Feb 2021 13:21 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 1257871
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.1489 , 31.8572
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 13:21 UTC
28 Feb 2021 15:21 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 14:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Africa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000decj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),