M 5.2 in Yemen on 31 Jan 2022 12:38 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 1308258
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.4243 , 56.2756
Event Date: 31 Jan 2022 12:38 UTC
31 Jan 2022 16:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2022 12:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Yemen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gglp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),