M 5.2 in Panama on 16 Nov 2017 20:18 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 1126626
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.8557 , -82.5151
Event Date: 16 Nov 2017 20:18 UTC
16 Nov 2017 14:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2017 20:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bpxs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 581 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

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(20 de noviembre de 2017. El Venezolano).- Este lunes un terremoto de magnitud 7,0 sacudió un área cerca de Nueva Caledonia en el Pacífico sur generando alerta de tsunami, dijo el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). Una publicación
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Seafloor Sediments Appear to Enhance Earthquake and Tsunami Danger in ... Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:35:00 +0100.

Lead researcher Shoushou Han in front of an array of air guns, the source of the soundwaves used to image the seafloor. The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has all the ingredients for making powerful earthqu
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Alerta de tsunami en el Pacífico por terremoto de 7.3Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:09:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 7.3 en la escala de Richter sacudió la madrugada de este lunes el archipiélago francés de Nueva Caledonia, en el Océano Pacífico. El Instituto Geológico de Estados Unidos informa que el sismo se registró a 25 kilómetros
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Séisme de magnitude 7,0 au large de la N-Calédonie, pas de dégâtMon, 20 Nov 2017 16:59:00 +0100.

Un puissant séisme de magnitude 7,0 s'est produit lundi au large de l'archipel de Nouvelle-Calédonie, provoquant la frayeur des habitants mais pas de dégât notable, selon les autorités locales. Une alerte au tsunami concernant les bandes cô
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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.
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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),