M 6 in Tanzania on 12 Aug 2020 17:13 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 1229963
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 15.49 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.3283 , 39.8073
Event Date: 12 Aug 2020 17:13 UTC
12 Aug 2020 20:13 Local
Exposed Population: About 92000 people in MMI
5320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2020 19:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.5 (Tanzania)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bdg8 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.17  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 26 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Professor Bar-On wins Yigal Alon prize for pioneering excellenceThu, 13 Aug 2020 11:58:00 +0200.

Professor Elhanan Bar-On, the director of the Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response at Sheba Medical Center, has won the Yigal Alon Prize for pioneering excellence. As a Lt. Colonel in the IDF Medical Corps Reserves, Prof. Ba
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No Tsunami threat for Tanzania following earthquake, TMA assuresThu, 13 Aug 2020 11:30:00 +0200.

In Summary. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck off about 80 kilometers southeast of Dar es Salaam. The earthquake was widely felt but there were no immediate reports of injuries. By The Citizen Reporter Dar es Salaam.
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Earthquake of 5.9 magnitude strikes off Tanzania coastThu, 13 Aug 2020 10:26:00 +0200.

The USGS reported that the incident took place at about 8.13pm local time. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck off the coast of Tanzania on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS reported that the i
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KBC: Nairobi and Mombasa residents report earth tremorsThu, 13 Aug 2020 09:37:00 +0200.

According to United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquakes in Tanzania especially of this magnitude, are very rare. Many people reported feeling the earthquake, especially along the coast and on nearby islands. It was felt as far as 6
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),