M 4.5 in Ecuador on 18 Nov 2021 04:13 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 1297412
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 59.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.6473 , -79.183
Event Date: 18 Nov 2021 04:13 UTC
17 Nov 2021 23:13 Local
Exposed Population:
820 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Nov 2021 04:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Ecuador= 4.3; Colombia= 4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fuzu Scaled population (vector) 5.76  
  C1 earthquake 2.46  
  C2 earthquake -2.57  
  Country Vulnerability -0.1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.9  
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),