M 6.1 in Panama on 28 Jan 2022 11:14 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 1307844
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.4909 , -82.5881
Event Date: 28 Jan 2022 11:14 UTC
28 Jan 2022 05:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2022 11:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gfti Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 175 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Chinese military sends two naval vessels bearing 2nd batch of aid to t ... 2022-02-01T09:40+0100.

Global Times. By Guo Yuandan Published: Jan 31, 2022 03:21 PM. Upon the request from Tonga, the Chinese military sent two naval vessels to the country with China's second batch of disaster-relief supplies in the aftermath of a volcano erupt
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What Causes a Tsunami? The Physics Behind Destructive Ocean Waves2022-02-01T06:49+0100.

Communities in Tonga were struck by a tsunami and heavy volcanic ash deposition from the eruption of Hunga Tonga (NZDF) Published Jan 19, 2022 11:13 PM by On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a t
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Ecuador: Oil spill impacts Amazon nature reserve2022-02-01T06:24+0100.

An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has affected part of a nature reserve in the Amazon rainforest and polluted a major river, the government said Monday. Ecuador's Environmental Ministry said nearly two hectares (five acres) of a nature reserv
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),