M 4.5 in Colombia on 01 Dec 2020 04:20 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 1245821
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 54.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.9653 , -76.9117
Event Date: 01 Dec 2020 04:20 UTC
30 Nov 2020 23:20 Local
Exposed Population:
320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Dec 2020 00:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Colombia= 4; Panama= 4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cli2 Scaled population (vector) 5.21  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.15  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),