M 4.7 in Venezuela on 29 Oct 2024 21:49 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 1451325
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.3345 , -71.8717
Event Date: 29 Oct 2024 21:49 UTC
29 Oct 2024 17:49 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2024 22:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Venezuela)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nnx8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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Latest media headlines

Moderate mag. 4.3 earthquake - 63 km southeast of San Cristobal, Tachi.. 10/29/2024 10:08:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is San Jose de Cucuta , a city with more than 720,000 inhabitants in Colombia , in 83 km (52 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),