M 5.1 in Venezuela on 18 Nov 2017 05:54 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 1126753
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.3473 , -71.7899
Event Date: 18 Nov 2017 05:54 UTC
18 Nov 2017 01:54 Local
Exposed Population:
3070000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Nov 2017 06:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Venezuela)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Venezuela= 4.3; Colombia= 4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us2000bqwx Scaled population (vector) 6.37  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.9  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 603 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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“Queremos anunciar el día de hoy, martes 21 de noviembre, que debido a las condiciones de dificultad que atraviesa el hermano pueblo de Dominica, después del paso del huracán María, Venezuela anuncia la puesta en marcha de un proceso de con
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),