M 4.5 in El Salvador on 29 Sep 2020 06:44 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 1237320
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.3422 , -88.7585
Event Date: 29 Sep 2020 06:44 UTC
29 Sep 2020 00:44 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2020 07:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c2fy Scaled population (vector) 2.72  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 372 | About casualties: 45 | Last hour: 0

Penas mínimas a imputados en caso Operación TsunamiSat, 03 Oct 2020 06:23:00 +0200.

Penas de prisión que oscilan entre los dos (excarcelable) y nueve años prisión recibieron 83 imputados en el caso llamado Operación Tsunami, con el que las autoridades capturaron a pandilleros y colaboradores en la zona sur del departamento
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Imponen penas mínimas a imputados en caso Operación TsunamiSat, 03 Oct 2020 02:45:00 +0200.

Penas de prisión que oscilan entre los dos (excarcelable) y nueve años prisión recibieron 83 imputados en el caso llamado Operación Tsunami, con el que las autoridades capturaron a pandilleros y colaboradores en la zona sur del departamento
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Humanitarian spirit shall be cherished in midst of COVID-19 pandemicSat, 03 Oct 2020 01:33:00 +0200.

“China, which upholds the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, would like to share its experience in disease prevention and control with other countries, launch joint research and development of medicines and va
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Kamran ShariffSat, 03 Oct 2020 00:57:00 +0200.

A brief chronological narration of our Baroghil Valley trip including the Karomber Lake trek is included with some recommendations for its environmental sustenance.Visiting the remote Baroghil Valley was on my bucket list since long and a c
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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),