M 5.3 Off-shore on 05 May 2016 11:01 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 1085722
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.926 , -108.3143
Event Date: 05 May 2016 11:01 UTC
05 May 2016 04:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 May 2016 11:21 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1101 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Un terremoto en México de 5,9 hace saltar las alarmas en la capitalMon, 09 May 2016 10:37:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 5,9 en la escala de Richter ha sacudido en las primeras horas del domingo la capital de México y ha causado el desalojo de algunas viviendas, sin que las autoridades hallan reportado víctimas ni daños materiales de
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EQC less than one third through botched repair jobs, as requests pile ... Mon, 09 May 2016 10:36:00 +0200.

The Earthquake Commission (EQC) has revisited less than a third of the thousands of botched repairs on its books, as the number of remedial jobs continues to increase. In January, EQC revealed it had 5500 shoddily repaired homes to fix. By
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Floril toca en Viena Chopin y canciones ecuatorianas para víctimas ...Mon, 09 May 2016 10:36:00 +0200.

Dos obras del compositor polaco Frederic Chopin se combinarán con canciones ecuatorianas en un concierto del pianista Jonathan Floril en Viena, en honor y a beneficio de las víctimas del terremoto ocurrido en Ecuador el pasado 16 de abril.
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Floril toca en Viena Chopin y canciones ecuatorianas para víctimas del ... Mon, 09 May 2016 10:33:00 +0200.

Dos obras del compositor polaco Frederic Chopin se combinarán con canciones ecuatorianas en un concierto del pianista Jonathan Floril en Viena, en honor y a beneficio de las víctimas del terremoto ocurrido en Ecuador el pasado 16 de abril.
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),