M 4.5 in Ecuador on 06 Jun 2016 16:45 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 1087691
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 13.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.5717 , -80.037
Event Date: 06 Jun 2016 16:45 UTC
06 Jun 2016 11:45 Local
Exposed Population:
515080 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jun 2016 19:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200062cm Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),