M 5.5 in Ecuador on 31 Jan 2017 14:22 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 1104488
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.7003 , -79.6769
Event Date: 31 Jan 2017 14:22 UTC
31 Jan 2017 09:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 27000 people in MMI
640000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2017 18:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us10007wew Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),