M 4.5 in Colombia on 30 Aug 2025 21:50 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 1498232
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 148.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.8591 , -73.1234
Event Date: 30 Aug 2025 21:50 UTC
30 Aug 2025 16:50 Local
Exposed Population:
2.4 million in MMI II
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2025 02:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qsn0 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),