M 4.5 in Nicaragua on 02 Sep 2016 05:03 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 1093118
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 46.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.2598 , -87.5835
Event Date: 02 Sep 2016 05:03 UTC
01 Sep 2016 23:03 Local
Exposed Population:
558523 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Sep 2016 05:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006jjv 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 463 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Sri Lanka to take part in Regional and National Tsunami Simulation Exe ... Tue, 06 Sep 2016 04:38:00 +0200.

Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 07:55 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Sept 06, Colombo: The Disaster Management Center (DMC) under the Ministry of Disaster Management will join with seven other countries in the Indian Ocean Rim as a partici
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East Cape could be hit by an even bigger quake: GeonetTue, 06 Sep 2016 04:36:00 +0200.

Scientists can't rule out the possibility of a strong quake greater than magnitude 8 hitting the East Coast in the coming month. Seismologists are predicting three different scenarios over the next 30 days based on the level of tremor activ
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Earthquake exceeding 6 pts occurs on Commander IslandsTue, 06 Sep 2016 03:32:00 +0200.

September 06, 4:24 UTC+3 PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY An official at the Kamchatka territory branch of the Ministry for Emergency Situations said there were no victims or destructions and no threat of a tsunami was announced. PETROPAVLOVSK-KAM
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Expresidentes Cristina Fernández y Mujica irán a cita de izquierda en ... Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:25:00 +0200.

Quito, 6 sep (EFE).- Los expresidentes Cristina Fernández (Argentina) y José Mujica (Uruguay) figuran entre las personalidades que participarán en el Tercer Encuentro Latinoamericano Progresista (ELAP), que se celebrará en Ecuador del 28 al
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),