M 4.8 in Ecuador on 01 Jan 2016 17:15 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 1077574
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 47.41 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.5193 , -78.7895
Event Date: 01 Jan 2016 17:15 UTC
01 Jan 2016 12:15 Local
Exposed Population:
3178563 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2016 15:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 270 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

ISOLE HAWAIITue, 05 Jan 2016 14:18:00 +0100.

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¿Tsunami en Comodoro? La broma que se viralizó en redes socialesTue, 05 Jan 2016 14:01:00 +0100.

Autoridades de Defensa Civil y el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional debieron desmentir en la tarde de ayer la información que asustó a muchas personas sobre un alerta de Tsunami en Comodoro y Rada Tilly. Horas después, advertían también sobre
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Se registra en Japón un sismo de magnitud 5,8Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:17:00 +0100.

Este lunes se ha registrado en Japón un sismo de magnitud 5,8. El terremoto se produjo a las 22:58:22 GMT y tuvo lugar a 172 kilómetros al sudsudeste de la ciudad meridional de Nishinoomote. El foco del temblor se localizó a 10 kilómetros d
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Goudougoudou : petit rappel à nos mauvais souvenirsTue, 05 Jan 2016 11:24:00 +0100.

« Nous avons une sismicité locale très active », a confié l’ingénieur Claude Prépetit, peu après avoir confirmé pour le journal ce lundi l’enregistrement le 30 décembre 2015 et le 2 janvier 2016 de deux secousses. Le 30 décembre, à Bombardo
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),