M 5.2 in Morocco on 07 Jan 2023 08:12 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 1353406
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.0003 , -3.8945
Event Date: 07 Jan 2023 08:12 UTC
07 Jan 2023 09:12 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2023 08:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5 (Morocco)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j2ru Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),