M 5.5 in Colombia on 12 Jan 2017 16:06 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 1103086
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 3.26 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.0529 , -77.9322
Event Date: 12 Jan 2017 16:06 UTC
12 Jan 2017 11:06 Local
Exposed Population: About 45000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2017 16:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007svx 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),