M 5.2 in Nicaragua on 26 Jun 2026 11:57 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 1548672
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 120.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.0312 , -86.4565
Event Date: 26 Jun 2026 11:57 UTC
26 Jun 2026 05:57 Local
Exposed Population:
3 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 26 Jun 2026 12:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000t8ey Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),