Overall Green Earthquake alert in Ecuador on 06 Jul 2016 06:19 UTC

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M 4.6 in Ecuador on 06 Jul 2016 06:19 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 1089421
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	45.82 Km
Lat/Lon:	0.911 , -79.3852
Event Date:	06 Jul 2016 06:19 UTC 06 Jul 2016 01:19 Local
Exposed Population:	517597 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jul 2016 06:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000616m	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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