M 6.1 in El Salvador on 28 Oct 2018 22:23 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 1160335
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 24.69 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.9489 , -90.3848
Event Date: 28 Oct 2018 22:23 UTC
28 Oct 2018 16:23 Local
Exposed Population: 120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2018 22:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; El Salvador= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hib5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 479 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

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Number of Earthquake and Tsunami Victims Updated in IndonesiaThu, 01 Nov 2018 17:09:00 +0100.

Jakarta, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) Some 2,087 people died and 4,438 were injured as a result of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Celebes on October 28, an official source confirmed on Thursday. Accordi
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),