M 4.6 in Colombia on 20 May 2018 11:17 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 1143608
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 147.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.7699 , -73.0043
Event Date: 20 May 2018 11:17 UTC
20 May 2018 06:17 Local
Exposed Population:
1960000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2018 11:32 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 0
us1000e8yh Scaled population (vector) 6.52  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.9  
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),