M 4.6 in Nicaragua on 30 Aug 2014 10:31 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 1038889
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.46 , -85.33
Event Date: 30 Aug 2014 10:31 UTC
30 Aug 2014 04:31 Local
Exposed Population:
923114 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2014 11:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),