M 4.6 in Somalia on 17 Dec 2021 01:35 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 1302061
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.5061 , 48.2733
Event Date: 17 Dec 2021 01:35 UTC
17 Dec 2021 04:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2021 02:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Somalia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gd0b 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

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),