M 4.9 in El Salvador on 04 Jan 2017 16:45 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 1102515
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 13.1116 , -89.4042
Event Date: 04 Jan 2017 16:45 UTC
04 Jan 2017 10:45 Local
Exposed Population:
3960000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jan 2017 23:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
us10007pxt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 762 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Moderate quake hits Papua New GuineaSun, 08 Jan 2017 16:10:00 +0100.

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César Azabache: “Odebrecht ha lanzado una rendición incondicional”Sun, 08 Jan 2017 15:49:00 +0100.

, abogado que integró el equipo de la Procuraduría Anticorrupción que investigó a Alberto Fujimori y Vladimiro Montesinos, consideró que los sobornos que Odebrecht pagó a funcionarios de los últimos tres gobiernos constituyen “un terremoto
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Afectados por sismo continúan sin ayuda ayuda | Diario La Hora de Quit ... Sun, 08 Jan 2017 15:25:00 +0100.

Unas 5.768 personas damnificadas, pertenecientes a 1.464 familias, aún permanecen en albergues, según datos oficiales, tras el terremoto que azotó a Manabí y Esmeraldas en abril pasado, y la ayuda ofrecida por el Gobierno aún no llega a tod
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Terremoto de 5,9 grados sacudió el noroeste de Papua Nueva GuineaSun, 08 Jan 2017 14:14:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de 5,9 grados sacudió este domingo el noroeste de la República de Papua Nueva Guinea sin que las autoridades hayan informado de víctimas ni daños materiales de entidad, ni activado la aleta de tsunami. Con un epicentro a 66 kil
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),