M 4.7 in Nicaragua on 12 May 2024 00:10 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 1428371
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 154.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.9019 , -86.2536
Event Date: 12 May 2024 00:10 UTC
11 May 2024 18:10 Local
Exposed Population:
3.2 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 12 May 2024 00:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxz9 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)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),