M 5.3 in South Africa on 22 Dec 2024 00:51 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 1458807
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.445 , 19.4352
Event Date: 22 Dec 2024 00:51 UTC
22 Dec 2024 02:51 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2024 01:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (South Africa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000p0n9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),