M 4.6 in Colombia on 12 May 2024 01:01 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 1428374
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.8126 , -73.5012
Event Date: 12 May 2024 01:01 UTC
11 May 2024 20:01 Local
Exposed Population:
540 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 12 May 2024 01:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxzf 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),