M 4.5 in Nicaragua on 23 Nov 2020 11:05 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 1244836
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 78.82 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.0921 , -87.1071
Event Date: 23 Nov 2020 11:05 UTC
23 Nov 2020 05:05 Local
Exposed Population:
2030000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Nov 2020 12:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Honduras= 5.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000crlg Scaled population (vector) 5.9  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 26 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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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),