Overall Green Earthquake alert in Colombia on 27 Jul 2018 06:01 UTC

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M 4.5 in Colombia on 27 Jul 2018 06:01 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 1151747
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	6.1189 , -77.4035
Event Date:	27 Jul 2018 06:01 UTC 27 Jul 2018 01:01 Local
Exposed Population:	180000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Jul 2018 06:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000geyk	Scaled population (vector)	5.18
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	-0.15
	INFORM_normalised	0.87

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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),

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