M 4.9 in Nicaragua on 29 Apr 2017 17:58 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 1111625
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 19.55 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.1581 , -86.7757
Event Date: 29 Apr 2017 17:58 UTC
29 Apr 2017 11:58 Local
Exposed Population:
230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2017 21:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10008m1x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Russian Colonel Viktor Baranetz A former Russian defence ministry spokesman has made an extraordinary claim that Russia is burying nuclear weapons off the coast of America. Colonel Viktor Baranetz claims that the ‘mole nukes’ would be used
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Persiste alerta en el Caribe por actividad de volcán submarinoWed, 03 May 2017 17:23:00 +0200.

Varias naciones insulares del Caribe oriental mantienen hoy una estrecha vigilancia ante la intensificación de la actividad del volcán submarino Kick-‘em-Jenny, situado ocho kilómetros al norte de Granada. El Centro de Investigación Sísmica
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Persiste alerta en el Caribe por actividad de volcán submarinoWed, 03 May 2017 17:20:00 +0200.

Varias naciones insulares del Caribe oriental mantienen hoy una estrecha vigilancia ante la intensificación de la actividad del volcán submarino Kick-‘em-Jenny, situado ocho kilómetros al norte de Granada. El Centro de Investigación Sísmica
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),