M 4.6 in El Salvador on 29 May 2016 16:44 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 1087201
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.6342 , -89.2702
Event Date: 29 May 2016 16:44 UTC
29 May 2016 10:44 Local
Exposed Population:
256430 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2016 19:33 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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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),