M 4.8 in Colombia on 19 Feb 2018 01:50 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 1135094
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 102.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.0988 , -76.6073
Event Date: 19 Feb 2018 01:50 UTC
18 Feb 2018 20:50 Local
Exposed Population:
4420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2018 02:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d4he Scaled population (vector) 6.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.15  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 222 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Ineter atento ante intensa actividad sísmica en el Cinturón de FuegoWed, 21 Feb 2018 23:05:00 +0100.

Los especialistas del INETER indican que el cinturón de fuego tiene una extensión de más de 40 mil kilómetros y recorre decenas de países, incluyendo el istmo centroamericano. Afirman que todas las regiones del planeta que forman parte del
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Ineter atento ante intensa actividad sísmica en el Cinturón de FuegoWed, 21 Feb 2018 23:03:00 +0100.

Los especialistas del INETER indican que el cinturón de fuego tiene una extensión de más de 40 mil kilómetros y recorre decenas de países, incluyendo el istmo centroamericano. Afirman que todas las regiones del planeta que forman parte del
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Fukushima operator told to compensate for suicide of 102-year-old orde ... Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:31:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese court on Tuesday (Feb 20) ordered the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to compensate relatives of a 102-year-old man who killed himself at the prospect of fleeing his home. The Fukushima District Cou
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Cómo detectar las noticias falsas en redes socialesWed, 21 Feb 2018 22:17:00 +0100.

21 de febrero de 2018 | Actualizado el 21 de febrero de 2018. Internet permite acceder a una inmensa cantidad de contenido informativo. El problema es precisamente que con tantas noticias y tanta viralidad sin control estamos expuestos a s
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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),