M 4.9 in Panama on 11 Feb 2019 15:17 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 1170523
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.0568 , -82.667
Event Date: 11 Feb 2019 15:17 UTC
11 Feb 2019 09:17 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2019 15:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jgb1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 59 | About casualties: 54 | Last hour: 0

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Africa’s forgotten empiresWed, 30 Jan 2019 19:17:00 +0100.

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The Latest: Brazil seeks dam collapse victims; toll at 58Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:58:00 +0100.

BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — The latest on the deadly mine waste dam collapse in southeastern Brazil (all times local): 9:30 p.m. The Civil Defense office in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has raised the number of confirmed deaths in a da
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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.
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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),