M 4.7 in Ecuador on 27 Oct 2020 11:59 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 1241074
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.47 , -78.7458
Event Date: 27 Oct 2020 11:59 UTC
27 Oct 2020 06:59 Local
Exposed Population:
4750000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cdq4 Scaled population (vector) 6.77  
  C1 earthquake 2.46  
  C2 earthquake -2.57  
  Country Vulnerability -0.1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.9  
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Latest media headlines

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Ecuador Crisis Response Plan 2020Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:25:00 +0200.

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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),