M 4.8 in Near Coast Of Nicaragua on 24 Jan 2020 23:44 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 1203291
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 53.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.3796 , -86.6412
Event Date: 24 Jan 2020 23:44 UTC
24 Jan 2020 17:44 Local
Exposed Population:
2130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2020 00:04 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
us60007f9k Scaled population (vector) 5.54  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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