Overall Green Earthquake alert in Oman on 27 Apr 2025 10:32 UTC

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M 4.5 in Oman on 27 Apr 2025 10:32 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 1479175
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	18.2273 , 55.1027
Event Date:	27 Apr 2025 10:32 UTC 27 Apr 2025 14:32 Local
Exposed Population:	2 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at:	27 Apr 2025 11:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4 (Oman)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000pvdy	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Moderate earthquake recorded in Dhofar 4/27/2025 12:14:00 PM.

Muscat : A moderate earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale was recorded on Sunday afternoon in Oman’s Dhofar Governorate. According to the Sultan Qaboos University Earthquake Monitoring Center, the tremor struck at 2:32 PM local time

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3.0 Magnitude earthquake recorded in Dhofar 4/27/2025 11:59:00 AM.

Muscat – The Earthquake Monitoring Centre at Sultan Qaboos University reported a moderate earthquake in the Wilayat of Shaleem and the Hallaniyat Islands in Dhofar Governorate on Sunday afternoon at 2.32pm local time. The tremor, measured 3

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5.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Oman, no impact in UAE 4/27/2025 11:47:00 AM.

Dubai: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern Oman on Sunday.

UPDATE 5.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Oman, no impact in UAE 9m ago .. 4/27/2025 11:46:00 AM.

The quake struck at a depth of 8 km, but no impact was reported in the UAE. NCM. Dubai: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern Oman on Sunday. According to a social media post by the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology (NCM)

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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),

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