M 4.7 in Mauritius - Reunion Region on 27 Nov 2020 01:47 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 1245267
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.3864 , 65.5351
Event Date: 27 Nov 2020 01:47 UTC
27 Nov 2020 05:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2020 02:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mauritius)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ck7g Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),