M 5.8 in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the on 07 Aug 2015 01:25 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 1062439
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 12 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.1566 , 28.8924
Event Date: 07 Aug 2015 01:25 UTC
07 Aug 2015 03:25 Local
Exposed Population: 8030000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Aug 2015 02:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),