M 5.1 in Yemen on 31 Mar 2021 19:16 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 1263013
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.527 , 56.2523
Event Date: 31 Mar 2021 19:16 UTC
31 Mar 2021 23:16 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2021 19:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Yemen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dy0t 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),