M 4.8 in Puerto Rico on 18 Aug 2017 20:13 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 1119578
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 42 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.9466 , -66.3118
Event Date: 18 Aug 2017 20:13 UTC
18 Aug 2017 16:13 Local
Exposed Population:
2540000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2017 22:17 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
PRICO RS 0.1 0.1
pr2017230012 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),