M 5.3 in Colombia on 12 Feb 2017 09:32 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 1105375
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 24.59 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.2116 , -73.0687
Event Date: 12 Feb 2017 09:32 UTC
12 Feb 2017 04:32 Local
Exposed Population:
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2017 09:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us20008jbe 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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),