M 4.6 in Venezuela on 16 Aug 2014 12:39 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 1038053
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 19.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.49 , -67.49
Event Date: 16 Aug 2014 12:39 UTC
16 Aug 2014 08:09 Local
Exposed Population:
8555832 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2014 13:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),