M 5.1 in Ecuador on 12 Aug 2014 19:57 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 1037708
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 5.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.08 , -78.3
Event Date: 12 Aug 2014 19:57 UTC
12 Aug 2014 14:57 Local
Exposed Population: About 31000 people in MMI
3220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Aug 2014 15:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
usb000s27f 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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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 262 | About casualties: 36 | Last hour: 0

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Partnership of the Americas: Este domingo y lunes entregan ayuda human ... Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:19:00 +0200.

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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),