M 4.6 in El Salvador on 09 Aug 2016 14:26 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 1091551
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 47.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.6761 , -88.8591
Event Date: 09 Aug 2016 14:26 UTC
09 Aug 2016 08:26 Local
Exposed Population:
641285 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Aug 2016 17:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ccu 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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),