M 4.9 Off-shore on 20 Jul 2016 16:49 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 1090328
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 96.65 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.3567 , -78.5636
Event Date: 20 Jul 2016 16:49 UTC
20 Jul 2016 11:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jul 2016 23:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20006g7z 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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),