M 7.3 in Venezuela on 21 Aug 2018 21:31 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 1154562
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.3M
Glide number: EQ-2018-000137-VEN
Depth: 154.27 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.8553 , -62.8829
Event Date: 21 Aug 2018 21:31 UTC
21 Aug 2018 17:31 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VII
490000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2018 16:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Venezuela)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0 0.5
us1000gez7 Scaled population (vector) 2.32 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.9      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (88), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),