M 4.5 in Nicaragua on 12 Dec 2016 15:36 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 1100728
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 56.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.1295 , -87.7675
Event Date: 12 Dec 2016 15:36 UTC
12 Dec 2016 09:36 Local
Exposed Population:
294883 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2016 17:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008086 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),