M 4.8 in Nicaragua on 15 Feb 2017 02:47 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 1105590
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.2146 , -88.2072
Event Date: 15 Feb 2017 02:47 UTC
14 Feb 2017 20:47 Local
Exposed Population:
About 500 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2017 03:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008jvc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),