M 5.3 in South Africa on 06 Dec 2021 22:35 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 1300289
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.4165 , 31.4202
Event Date: 06 Dec 2021 22:35 UTC
07 Dec 2021 00:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2021 22:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Africa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g9t5 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),