M 4.7 in Nicaragua on 30 Jan 2024 10:36 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 1412783
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.5162 , -87.0597
Event Date: 30 Jan 2024 10:36 UTC
30 Jan 2024 04:36 Local
Exposed Population:
1.6 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2024 11:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000luyc 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, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),