M 4.6 in Bolivia on 17 Sep 2020 10:02 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 1235712
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 160.16 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.592 , -69.3451
Event Date: 17 Sep 2020 10:02 UTC
17 Sep 2020 06:02 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2020 09:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Peru= 4.6; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bpbq Scaled population (vector) 5.15  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
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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),