M 4.7 in Panama on 01 Apr 2019 13:44 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 1175209
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.4642 , -82.6625
Event Date: 01 Apr 2019 13:44 UTC
01 Apr 2019 08:44 Local
Exposed Population:
550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Apr 2019 14:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000k8iz Scaled population (vector) 6.05  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),