M 4.7 in Venezuela on 17 May 2017 10:04 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 1113192
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 91.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.9229 , -62.1768
Event Date: 17 May 2017 10:04 UTC
17 May 2017 06:04 Local
Exposed Population:
730000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 May 2017 10:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Venezuela)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Venezuela= 4.3; Trinidad & Tobago= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us10008szh 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),