M 4.8 in Ecuador on 20 Dec 2016 10:49 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 1101370
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.8955 , -79.7677
Event Date: 20 Dec 2016 10:49 UTC
20 Dec 2016 05:49 Local
Exposed Population:
525840 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2016 12:34 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200082tc 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: 531 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),