M 5.4 in Nicaragua on 17 Jun 2017 13:47 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 1115150
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 28.31 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.2778 , -86.6997
Event Date: 17 Jun 2017 13:47 UTC
17 Jun 2017 07:47 Local
Exposed Population:
590000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2017 14:08 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 0.4 0.4
us20009n9r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),