M 4.6 in Ecuador on 19 Sep 2025 01:49 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 1500918
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.2704 , -80.8101
Event Date: 19 Sep 2025 01:49 UTC
18 Sep 2025 20:49 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2025 02:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qx6e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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)

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