M 5.5 in Ecuador on 21 Aug 2023 05:24 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 1387980
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 60.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.2512 , -79.8994
Event Date: 21 Aug 2023 05:24 UTC
21 Aug 2023 00:24 Local
Exposed Population: 1.4 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2023 05:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000kpt4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),