M 4.6 in Colombia on 19 Jan 2022 04:25 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 1306569
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.4147 , -72.5282
Event Date: 19 Jan 2022 04:25 UTC
18 Jan 2022 23:25 Local
Exposed Population:
1.1 million in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2022 04:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gd37 Scaled population (vector) 6.08  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.15  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 297 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

South Pacific2022-01-23T04:33+0100.

The extension of service would include stations in downtown , Crown in , and South Nashua. Aldermen voted to endorse the Pan Am South location, adjacent to the southeast side of the existing active rail line on land previously used for rail
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Tonga volcanic eruption was larger than the biggest nuclear detonation ... 2022-01-23T03:31+0100.

In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption near the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular f
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MIL-OSI USA: Case Announces Additional $2.5 Million To Aid Tonga In Th ... 2022-01-23T03:22+0100.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) (Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today announced that the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development (USAID) is provid
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Tonga volcano: Plume reached half-way to space2022-01-23T02:17+0100.

Dr Simon Proud, from RAL Space , said these were "unheard-of altitudes" for a volcanic plume. The most powerful eruption in the second half of the 20th Century came from Mount Pinatubo in 1991. Its plume is thought to have climbed to roughl
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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),