M 6.1 in Colombia on 23 Mar 2019 19:21 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 1174256
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 113.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.5596 , -76.2801
Event Date: 23 Mar 2019 19:21 UTC
23 Mar 2019 14:21 Local
Exposed Population: 760000 people in MMI
2810000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Mar 2019 19:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000jkrq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),