M 4.9 in Nicaragua on 20 Aug 2017 15:39 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 1119681
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 163.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.3942 , -86.7667
Event Date: 20 Aug 2017 15:39 UTC
20 Aug 2017 09:39 Local
Exposed Population:
3100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2017 16:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Honduras= 5.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
us2000a9xx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),