Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nicaragua on 28 Apr 2017 01:10 UTC

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M 4.5 in Nicaragua on 28 Apr 2017 01:10 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 1111433
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	34.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	11.1131 , -86.8096
Event Date:	28 Apr 2017 01:10 UTC 27 Apr 2017 19:10 Local
Exposed Population:	100000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Apr 2017 01:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008lh2	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Latest media headlines

Nicaragua: Fortalecen medidas de protección de la vida en 17 municipio.. 4/28/2017 8:09:00 PM.

En 17 municipios de Nicaragua se desarrolló el Primer Ejercicio de Protección de la Vida frente a las multiamenazas, para fortalecer los mecanismos de preparación y respuesta ante las amenazas y riesgos particulares a los que las familias e

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Nicaragua: Fortalecen medidas de protección de la vida en 17 municipio.. 4/28/2017 7:56:00 PM.

En 17 municipios de Nicaragua se desarrolló el Primer Ejercicio de Protección de la Vida frente a las multiamenazas, para fortalecer los mecanismos de preparación y respuesta ante las amenazas y riesgos particulares a los que las familias e

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Realizan ejercicios municipales ante desastres naturales en Nicaragua 4/28/2017 7:36:00 PM.

A las 10 de la mañana de este viernes se realizó en 17 municipios del país, el Primer Ejercicio Municipal de Protección ante Desastres Naturales para fortalecer las capacidades de respuesta de la población e instituciones ante emergencias y

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Nicaragua se solidariza con Irán tras terremoto 4/6/2017 4:59:00 AM.

La Compañera-Vicepresidenta Rosario Murillo se solidarizó con el pueblo y Gobierno de Irán tras el sismo 6.1 de magnitud ocurrido al noroeste de ese país. La Compañera señaló que el sismo dejó 2 personas fallecidas y 17 heridas. “Nuestra so

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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),

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