M 4.8 in Trinidad and Tobago on 20 Mar 2017 19:01 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 1108262
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 38.34 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.1448 , -60.8018
Event Date: 20 Mar 2017 19:01 UTC
20 Mar 2017 15:01 Local
Exposed Population:
660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2017 00:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Trinidad & Tobago)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008tct 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),