M 4.5 in Colombia on 28 Dec 2020 21:47 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 1249419
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 80.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.4329 , -77.3068
Event Date: 28 Dec 2020 21:47 UTC
28 Dec 2020 16:47 Local
Exposed Population:
3280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2020 22:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d3tl Scaled population (vector) 5.82  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.15  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 19 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Light magnitude 4.6 earthquake 55 km southwest of Buenaventura, Colomb ... Mon, 28 Dec 2020 23:42:00 +0100.

4.6 quake 28 Dec 4:47 pm (GMT -5) Just 25 minutes ago, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Buenaventura, Departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The tremor was recorded in the afternoon on Monday 28 December 2020 at 4:47 pm local tim
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Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia recibe reconocimiento británico por ... Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:46:00 +0100.

En 2017 una avalancha en Mocoa, Putumayo, acabó con cientos de casas, espacios naturales y lo peor: dejó más de 400 heridos y 336 muertos . Expertos y organizaciones como Corpoamazonia aseguraron que el fenómeno natural se presentó, entre o
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Solidaridad por Colombia recibe premio a la excelencia ambientalWed, 23 Dec 2020 21:05:00 +0100.

La Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia recibió el premio a la excelencia ambiental, tras el trabajo realizado en Mocoa Bosques de Paz tras la avalancha ocurrida en el 2017. El reconocimiento fue otorgado por British Quality Foundation, una e
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An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale 37 km southwest of Tu ... Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:29:00 +0100.

See also: Monthly Reports A 4.2-magnitude light earthquake 37 km southwest of Tumaco, Colombia Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:52 1:52 AM | By: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR 4.2 Earthquake 22 December 8:32 pm (GMT -5) The Institute of Geophysics of the National Po
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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),