M 5.5 in Tanzania on 09 Sep 2019 00:38 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 1188100
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4396 , 30.7634
Event Date: 09 Sep 2019 00:38 UTC
09 Sep 2019 03:38 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
570000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Sep 2019 00:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.5 (Tanzania)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us70005dj8 Scaled population (raster) 2.02  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.17  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Kenyans.co.ke: Tremors Reported in Parts of NairobiTue, 20 Aug 2019 11:36:00 +0200.

An earth tremor was on Tuesday morning felt in parts of the country, according to Citzen TV. The media house reported that the tremor was felt in some parts of Nairobi, Ruiru, Mombasa and Tanzania. Kenyans, in their usual inquisitive nature
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),