M 4.7 in Colombia on 21 Sep 2020 14:59 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 1236241
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.4651 , -78.408
Event Date: 21 Sep 2020 14:59 UTC
21 Sep 2020 09:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2020 15:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bqrk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 16 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Belt of Fire, the place where most earthquakes are born in the worldWed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another)
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Stalled by pandemic, migrants press in quest for better lifeThu, 10 Sep 2020 08:21:00 +0200.

LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama (AP) — Duperat Laurette fled Haiti after her country's massive 2010 earthquake, making her way first to the Dominican Republic, then Chile, and five years later to Panama — all with the dream of reaching the US and fin
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Stalled by pandemic, migrants press in quest for better lifeMon, 07 Sep 2020 23:48:00 +0200.

LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama — Duperat Laurette fled Haiti after her country’s massive 2010 earthquake, making her way first to the Dominican Republic, then Chile and five years later to Panama, all with the dream of reaching the U.S. and finding
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Stalled by pandemic, migrants press in quest for better lifeMon, 07 Sep 2020 18:20:00 +0200.

LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama Duperat Laurette fled Haiti after her country’s massive 2010 earthquake, making her way first to the Dominican Republic, then Chile and five years later to Panama, all with the dream of reaching the U.S. and finding a
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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),