M 4.8 in Nicaragua on 02 Nov 2020 12:17 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 1242192
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.6304 , -86.5124
Event Date: 02 Nov 2020 12:17 UTC
02 Nov 2020 06:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 55000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Nov 2020 12:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c992 Scaled population (vector) 3.74  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),