M 4.7 in Panama on 20 Feb 2017 19:35 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 1106052
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 15.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.292 , -79.2535
Event Date: 20 Feb 2017 19:35 UTC
20 Feb 2017 14:35 Local
Exposed Population:
1750000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2017 20:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008ky6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),