M 4.9 in Colombia on 02 Apr 2024 23:16 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 1422317
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.4407 , -72.3855
Event Date: 02 Apr 2024 23:16 UTC
02 Apr 2024 18:16 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 02 Apr 2024 23:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m9g0 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),