M 6 in Colombia on 24 Dec 2019 19:03 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 1199475
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.4901 , -74.0024
Event Date: 24 Dec 2019 19:03 UTC
24 Dec 2019 14:03 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
880000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2019 19:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us70006qnn Scaled population (raster) 1.49  
  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

Articles: 27 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

La semana en imágenes (del 23 al 29 de diciembre de 2019)Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:06:00 +0100.

A los 84 años muere el director de orquesta alemán Peter Schreier. El cantante alemán y director de orquesta Peter Schreier, considerado durante mucho tiempo uno de los principales tenores el siglo XX, falleció a los 84 años tras una larga
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10:00 Over 200 aftershocks after strong earthquake in ColombiaThu, 26 Dec 2019 16:27:00 +0100.

26 de diciembre de 2019, 10:0 Bogota, Dec 26 (Prensa Latina) The Colombian Geological Survey reported on Thursday that there were 205 2.0 or greater magnitude aftershocks, following the 6.2 magnitude earthquake of December 24, felt in sever
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Series of quake shake Colombia on Christmas eveThu, 26 Dec 2019 05:01:00 +0100.

Bogota, Dec 25 (UNI) A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck central Colombia on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, adding that it was followed by another one over half an hour. According to the USGS, the first earthquake w
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Sismo de magnitud 6.3 se registra en Port Hardy, CanadáWed, 25 Dec 2019 08:49:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de 6.3 grados se registró este martes frente a las costas de Canadá, el tercer sismo de magnitud 6 en menos de 24 horas en el continente y hasta ahora el más poderoso. El Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus
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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),