M 5.2 in Colombia on 16 Mar 2017 15:38 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 1107980
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 11.64 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.8931 , -72.6136
Event Date: 16 Mar 2017 15:38 UTC
16 Mar 2017 10:38 Local
Exposed Population:
620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us20008shs 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)

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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),