M 4.6 in Off Coast Of Central America on 30 Jun 2020 14:45 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 1224606
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.6434 , -89.337
Event Date: 30 Jun 2020 14:45 UTC
30 Jun 2020 08:45 Local
Exposed Population:
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jun 2020 15:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000af4e Scaled population (vector) 4.39  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 159 | About casualties: 48 | Last hour: 0

Hurricane evacuations unlikelyFri, 03 Jul 2020 00:29:00 +0200.

As the country prepares for what is expected to be an active hurricane season at a time when borders remain closed both locally and internationally, there are concerns that evacuation flights will not be an option if a large storm heads Cay
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This isn’t a COVID-19 wave — it’s a tsunamiThu, 02 Jul 2020 18:51:00 +0200.

This is what it took for local and state governments across this country to hit the brakes on their reckless reopening plans : 2.6 million people in the US infected with the coronavirus. 128,064 dead. Thanks to inept leadership, miscommunic
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Terrawatch / Terrawatch: unearthing snow's 'Fukushima layer'Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:27:00 +0200.

T he Fukushima nuclear accident has added a distinctive signature to snow and ice across the northern hemisphere, new research published in Environmental Research Letters shows. Triggered by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami off the coast o
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Terrawatch: unearthing snow's 'Fukushima layer' The GuardianTue, 30 Jun 2020 23:02:00 +0200.

© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: TPG/Getty Images. The Fukushima nuclear accident has added a distinctive signature to snow and ice across the northern hemisphere, new research published in Environmental Research Letters shows. Trigge
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),