M 4.6 in Nicaragua on 05 Oct 2016 07:25 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 1095253
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 90.69 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.7268 , -87.6112
Event Date: 05 Oct 2016 07:25 UTC
05 Oct 2016 01:25 Local
Exposed Population:
1396526 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Oct 2016 07:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10006v3z 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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Latest media headlines

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Hay 28 municipios de la costa del país en zonas de riesgo por un tsuna ... Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:54:00 +0200.

El secretario de Vulnerabilidad y director nacional de Protección Civil, Jorge Meléndez, confirmó que durante el simulacro de terremoto y tsunami que se desarrollará mañana, en el marco de los 30 años del terremoto del 10 de octubre de 1986
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Permalink to Gobierno realizará este 10 de octubre primer Simulacro Na ... Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:52:00 +0200.

Gobierno realizará este 10 de octubre primer Simulacro Nacional ante terremoto y tsunami El simulacro busca instruir a las instituciones públicas y privadas que conforman el Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil, sobre los procedimientos de
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У берегов Новой Зеландии произошло землетрясение магнитудой 5,5Sun, 09 Oct 2016 04:18:00 +0200.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),