Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tanzania on 16 May 2025 00:53 UTC

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M 4.7 in Tanzania on 16 May 2025 00:53 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 1481948
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.8801 , 33.4259
Event Date:	16 May 2025 00:53 UTC 16 May 2025 03:53 Local
Exposed Population:	390 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at:	16 May 2025 01:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.5 (Tanzania)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000pzhx	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

Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - Indian Ocean, Tanzania, on Sunday, May .. 5/18/2025 6:26:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Madimba , a town with 13,000 inhabitants in Tanzania , in 119 km (74 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the

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Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake - 3.5 km northwest of Mbeya, Mbeya Region.. 5/16/2025 1:24:00 AM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Mbeya , a city with more than 540,000 inhabitants in Tanzania , in 3.5 km (2.1 mi) distance southeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced moderate shaking

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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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