M 4.5 in Panama on 09 Dec 2017 15:29 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 1128330
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 51.34 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.6188 , -78.9168
Event Date: 09 Dec 2017 15:29 UTC
09 Dec 2017 10:29 Local
Exposed Population:
1240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2017 16:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c2dx Scaled population (vector) 5.3  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),