M 4.6 in Panama on 30 Nov 2020 16:36 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 1245741
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.3117 , -82.4011
Event Date: 30 Nov 2020 16:36 UTC
30 Nov 2020 11:36 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Nov 2020 17:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cl6i Scaled population (vector) 2.08  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred only 6 minutes ago 2 km southwest of Majagual, Panama, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The quake hit at a very shallow depth of 9 km beneath the epicenter near Majagua
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Mag. 4.6 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 124 km south of David, Prov ... Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:28:00 +0100.

Just 36 minutes ago, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Canegua, Panama. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Monday 30 November 2020 at 11.36 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The event was filed by the
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Mag. 4.4 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 53 km south of David, Abreu ... Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:18:00 +0100.

Just 9 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Boca Chica, Panama. The tremor was recorded in the evening on Thursday 26 November 2020 at 9.00 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The event was filed by
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Mag. 3.9 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 20 km south of El Palmar, C ... Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:22:00 +0100.

Nearby towns and cities: 17 km (11 mi) SSE of Altos de San Vicente (Barú) (pop: 424) 20 km (13 mi) SSE of El Palmar (pop: 4,540) 24 km (15 mi) S of Majagual (Barú) (pop: 521) 33 km (21 mi) SSW of Divalá (Distrito de Alanje) (pop: 2,510) 36
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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),