M 4.8 in Nicaragua on 01 Apr 2016 18:44 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 1083541
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 39.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.5744 , -86.8949
Event Date: 01 Apr 2016 18:44 UTC
01 Apr 2016 12:44 Local
Exposed Population:
1711875 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Apr 2016 15:45 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  
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),