M 4.8 in Panama on 21 Nov 2024 02:23 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 1454222
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.0301 , -82.8772
Event Date: 21 Nov 2024 02:23 UTC
20 Nov 2024 21:23 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2024 03:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000p6p4 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.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

Significant magnitude 5.2 quake hits 24 km southwest of David, Panama .. 11/21/2024 2:46:00 AM.

A moderately shallow magnitude 5.2 earthquake was reported in the evening near David, Distrito de David, Chiriqui, Panama. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, at 9:
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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),