M 4.6 in Colombia on 16 Nov 2015 13:11 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 1072429
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 39.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.4326 , -77.1063
Event Date: 16 Nov 2015 13:11 UTC
16 Nov 2015 08:11 Local
Exposed Population:
563218 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2015 20:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 167 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Marcelo Lagos aclaró los riesgos ante eventuales terremotos y tsunamisFri, 20 Nov 2015 13:02:00 +0100.

El Centro de Formación Técnica de Tarapacá, en el marco del Emprendimiento y Perfeccionamiento Continuo, realizó la charla “Prevenir los riesgos en nuestra región”, la cual fue dictada por Marcelo Lagos, reconocido geógrafo y académico chil
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Médicos de diversas partes del mundo se dan cita en Congreso Chileno d ... Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:26:00 +0100.

Más de 1.300 médicos llegaron a la zona para asistir a la versión número 51 del Congreso de la Sociedad Chilena de Ortopedia y Traumatología (SCHOT), una instancia de gran nivel científico y que este 2015 busca posicionar a la Región de Coq
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Bangkok, « la Venise de l’Orient »Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:15:00 +0100.

Avec près de 20 millions de touristes qui envahissent ses paysages chaque année, la Thaïlande reste indéniablement une destination touristique phare de l’Asie du Sud-Est. Malgré des troubles politiques, un tsunami, des inondations et des at
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Man admits abandoning disabled sister in forestFri, 20 Nov 2015 09:38:00 +0100.

A Japanese man has been arrested for allegedly abandoning his "troublesome" disabled sister on a mountainside to die, a practice known in Japanese folklore as "ubasute". Katsuo Kurokawa, 63, is accused of taking his older sister, Sachiko,
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),