M 5.5 in Colombia on 28 Jan 2019 21:07 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 1169140
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 14.86 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.0903 , -75.6928
Event Date: 28 Jan 2019 21:07 UTC
28 Jan 2019 16:07 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people in MMI
3630000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2019 03:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j9um Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 49 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Le explicamos cómo prepararse para un sismoWed, 30 Jan 2019 03:59:00 +0100.

Según el Observatorio Sismológico y Geofísico del Sur Occidente Colombiano, desde el pasado sábado 26 de enero hasta ayer, 29 de enero, se presentaron más de 5.500 movimientos sísmicos en Colombia. En la madrugada de ayer, hacia la 1:30, se
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),