M 4.6 in Jamaica on 15 Apr 2023 21:35 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 1369625
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.9025 , -76.501
Event Date: 15 Apr 2023 21:35 UTC
15 Apr 2023 16:35 Local
Exposed Population:
5 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2023 22:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.8 (Jamaica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000k4sx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),