M 4.9 in Tanzania on 19 Mar 2017 10:35 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 1108179
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 12.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1596 , 38.1074
Event Date: 19 Mar 2017 10:35 UTC
19 Mar 2017 13:35 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Mar 2017 10:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.5 (Tanzania)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008t5l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 363 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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BIZAR // Cele mai mari CONSPIRATII mondiale: Tsunami-ul din 2004, prov ... Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:12:00 +0100.

Meciul a durat 70 de minute, iar Sorana Cîrstea a reuşit o victorie spectaculoasă împotriva campioanei olimpice en-titre.Sorana va juca în turul următor chiar azi, în jurul orei 23.00, împotriva letonei Anastasia… Discutiile de pe retelele
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4 injured in Indonesia's Bali quakeThu, 23 Mar 2017 06:29:00 +0100.

JAKARTA， March 23 (Xinhua) -- Four people including three children were wounded and dozens of houses， school buildings， office buildings and temples were damaged after strong quake hit Bali resort island in central Indonesia on Wednesday， d
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Rosario en Multinoticias (22 de marzo 2017)Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:57:00 +0100.

Declaraciones de Compañera Rosario Vicepresidenta de Nicaragua en Edición del Mediodía de Multinoticias Canal 4. 22 de Marzo del 2017: Buenas tardes, Compañera; buenas tardes, queridas Familias; buenas tardes de hoy miércoles 22 de Marzo...
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),