M 4.8 in Panama on 27 Feb 2021 20:28 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 1257782
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.929 , -82.696
Event Date: 27 Feb 2021 20:28 UTC
27 Feb 2021 14:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2021 20:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000de80 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 12 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Global Earthquake Report for Saturday 13 February 2021 / VolcanoDiscov ... Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:11:00 +0100.

Summary: 11 earthquakes 5.0+, 48 earthquakes 4.0+, 124 earthquakes 3.0+, 236 earthquakes 2.0+ (419 total) This report is updated hourly. 5+ scale: 11 earthquakes, 4+: 48 earthquakes, 3+: 124 earthquakes, grade 2 +: 236 earthquakes No earthq
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World Earthquake Report for Wednesday, 10 February 2021Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:42:00 +0100.

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Brawley, Imperial County, California, USA, was reported only 6 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered the key international and national agency that monitors seismic activity in the US
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Moderate tremor of magnitude 4.4 just reported 66 km southwest of Salm ... Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:38:00 +0100.

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake near Brawley, Imperial County, California, USA, was reported only 8 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered the key international and national agency that monitors seismic activity in the US
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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),