M 4.8 in Ecuador on 15 Feb 2016 21:53 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 1080687
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.1874 , -85.3338
Event Date: 15 Feb 2016 21:53 UTC
15 Feb 2016 15:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2016 22:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 269 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Ante el creciente número de muertes de niños en el mar, agencias de NU ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:16:00 +0100.

Desde el pasado mes de septiembre, cuando la trágica muerte del pequeño Aylan Kurdi atrajo la atención del mundo, más de 340 niños, muchos de ellos bebés y niños pequeños, se han ahogado en el Mediterráneo oriental. El número total de niños
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Terremoto Usa, torna l’incubo in Sierra Nevada: serie di scosse di Mag ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:23:00 +0100.

Ragusa : Oggi 12/02 tre lievi scosse di assestamento. Oggi , Venerdì 12 febbraio, sono state segnalate tre piccole scosse di Terremoto tra il Ragusa no e il siracusano: Le scosse sismiche, avvenute tra le ore 12,30 e le ore 14,10, sono stat
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الأمم المتحدة: على العالم حفظ أرواح أطفال المهاجرين .Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:37:00 +0100.

دعت وكالات الأمم المتحدة دول العالم إلى تعزيز سلامة اللاجئين والمهاجرين في ظل تزايد أعداد وفيات الأطفال خلال محاولة عائلاتهم اليائسة الفرار من الصراعات وعبور البحر المتوسط. وطالبت مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين ومنظمة اليونيسيف والمنظم
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Africa: With Growing Numbers of Child Deaths At Sea, UN Agencies Call ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:17:00 +0100.

press release. An average of two children have drowned every day since September 2015 as their families try to cross the eastern Mediterranean, and the number of child deaths is growing said IOM, UNHCR, and UNICEF. The agencies are calling
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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.
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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),