M 4.7 in Nicaragua on 26 Nov 2020 11:51 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 1245185
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 48.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.6572 , -86.9141
Event Date: 26 Nov 2020 11:51 UTC
26 Nov 2020 05:51 Local
Exposed Population:
2170000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Nov 2020 12:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ck19 Scaled population (vector) 5.48  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 29 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

For immigrants, Trump-Biden switch 'like leaving years of abuse'Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:19:00 +0100.

González is among the so-called Dreamers, those brought into the country illegally when they were children, their hopes threatened under the Trump Administration. “Our hope is that even if we don’t have somebody to help us 100%, at least we
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Como si no existieranSun, 29 Nov 2020 06:41:00 +0100.

Nicaragua ha sufrido en menos de dos semanas el paso desolador de dos huracanes marcados con las letras griegas Eta y Iota, entrando ambos por el mismo lugar del litoral del Caribe norte donde el segundo de ellos arrasó con lo que el primer
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Como si no existieranSun, 29 Nov 2020 06:01:00 +0100.

Nicaragua ha sufrido en menos de dos semanas el paso desolador de dos huracanes marcados con las letras griegas Eta y Iota, entrando ambos por el mismo lugar del litoral del Caribe norte donde el segundo de ellos arrasó con lo que el primer
...(more)
Light magnitude 4.9 earthquake 99 km southwest of Managua, NicaraguaThu, 26 Nov 2020 13:05:00 +0100.

4.9 quake 26 Nov 5:51 am (GMT -6) An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred early morning on Thursday 26 November 2020 at 5.51 am local time near Masachapa, Nicaragua, as reported by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). Acc
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),