Overall Green Earthquake alert in Ethiopia on 12 May 2024 21:36 UTC

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M 4.9 in Ethiopia on 12 May 2024 21:36 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 1428511
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	5.2595 , 36.7268
Event Date:	12 May 2024 21:36 UTC 13 May 2024 00:36 Local
Exposed Population:	1 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at:	13 May 2024 07:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.8 (Ethiopia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000my68	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Latest media headlines

Earthquake in Ethiopia may damage GERD: Professor 5/15/2024 2:19:00 AM.

Professor of Geology and Water Resources at the Cairo University Abbas Sharaky said that Ethiopia witnessed an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale on Monday, and warned that it may have serious repercussions. Al-Shorouk newspaper

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Moderate mag. 4.9 earthquake - 44 km south of Jinka, SNNPR, Ethiopia, .. 5/13/2024 2:25:00 AM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Jinka , a town with 32,000 inhabitants in Ethiopia , in 44 km (28 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced light shaking there. In the capit

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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),

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