M 4.7 in The Democratic Republic of Congo on 14 Feb 2022 04:04 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 1310025
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.2262 , 29.328
Event Date: 14 Feb 2022 04:04 UTC
14 Feb 2022 06:04 Local
Exposed Population:
5.7 million in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2022 04:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
8 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Democratic Republic of Congo= 8; Burundi= 6.5; Tanzania= 6.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gkp1 Scaled population (vector) 6.45  
  C1 earthquake 1.83  
  C2 earthquake -2.02  
  Country Vulnerability -0.8  
  INFORM_normalised 1.35  
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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),