M 5.5 in Ecuador on 26 Jun 2018 09:15 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 1147616
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.6835 , -90.9391
Event Date: 26 Jun 2018 09:15 UTC
26 Jun 2018 03:15 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
About 19000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jun 2018 16:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000f22r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.9  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 39 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

A living labFri, 29 Jun 2018 03:14:00 +0200.

Image caption Geologists at work on the Sierra Negra volcano. A team of geoscientists from Edinburgh University is monitoring an erupting volcano in the Galápagos Islands to study how earthquakes affect volcanoes. In Dr Andrew Bell's office
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Asumiendo la sismicidad con mucha seriedadMon, 25 Jun 2018 07:25:00 +0200.

Hoy se inicia aquí, en Los Ángeles, California, la 11va Conferencia Nacional de Ingeniería de Terremotos, a la cual asistimos miles de geólogos, sismólogos e ingenieros estructuralistas de diferentes partes del mundo, siendo un evento cient
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Suspenden operaciones en el aeropuerto de Guayaquil hasta las 15:00Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:38:00 +0200.

La Dirección General de Aviación Civil (DGAC) informó que las operaciones de Aeropuerto Internacional “José Joaquín de Olmedo”, de Guayaquil, se suspenderán el sábado 23 de junio, de 09:00 a 15:00, debido a trabajos de mantenimiento prevent
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Japan fears larger earthquake after Osaka tremor Seven years after alm ... Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:29:00 +0200.

"It was a proper shake. I have experienced a lot over the years," he told DW. The 6.1-magnitude quake — the largest within the prefecture since records were first started in 1923 — was a mere 13 kilometers below the surface in the northern
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),