M 5.1 in Ecuador on 16 Jan 2015 11:39 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 1046899
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 75.19 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.3334 , -79.9413
Event Date: 16 Jan 2015 11:39 UTC
16 Jan 2015 06:39 Local
Exposed Population:
1204075 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2015 12:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
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

Articles: 253 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

World: Seismic risk and the 20th anniversary of the Kobe earthquakeMon, 19 Jan 2015 19:42:00 +0100.

16 January 2015, KOBE/GENEVA – The Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today congratulated the Japanese people and government for their steadfast remembrance of the 6,434 people who lost their li
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Euphoria due to pope visit quickly fades in TaclobanMon, 19 Jan 2015 18:33:00 +0100.

Vincent Basiano sang and cheered along with a sea of other joyous typhoon survivors as Pope Francis celebrated Mass on a rainy Philippine day, but all too quickly the euphoria passed. Basiano lost his shanty home when Super Typhoon Haiyan,
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APRÈS LE PASSAGE DE BANSI : Rodrigues se mobiliseMon, 19 Jan 2015 18:17:00 +0100.

L'agriculture, l'un des secteurs le plus touchés par les pluies diluviennes, l'objet d'une enquête approfondie; Le tsunami de Raj Dayal fait des vagues politiques à Rodrigues avec le chef commissaire, Serge Clair, qui proteste contre ce cas
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Photos: Vancouver Island living under threat of massive earthquakeMon, 19 Jan 2015 18:03:00 +0100.

Pachena Bay on Vancouver Island is the picturesque beach that scientists forecast as an epicentre for the next massive earthquake and tsunami. The bay is also the home to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations village of Anacla, about 300 kilometres
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),