M 5 in El Salvador on 01 Mar 2016 01:08 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 1081633
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 72.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.1232 , -88.8203
Event Date: 01 Mar 2016 01:08 UTC
29 Feb 2016 19:08 Local
Exposed Population:
4580568 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2016 01:26 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 0
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

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Japan 'robo' dogs eyed for quake rescue missionsSat, 05 Mar 2016 00:26:00 +0100.

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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),