M 4.7 in South Of Africa on 30 Apr 2021 21:35 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 1267015
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.8755 , 31.202
Event Date: 30 Apr 2021 21:35 UTC
30 Apr 2021 23:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dz4n 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 217 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Earthquake information: strong mag. 5.4 earthquakeTue, 04 May 2021 14:22:00 +0200.

May 4 07:13 UTC: First to report: NCS 7 minutes later. I felt this earthquake. I didn’t feel it. Date and time: May 4, 2021 07:06:25 UTC – Local time at epicenter: 2021-05-04 12:36:25 ISTM Temperature: 5.4 Depth: 10.0 km Latitude / Longitud
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Did the Earth move for you, Joburg? Experts confirm ‘tremor’ in the ci ... Tue, 04 May 2021 13:50:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),