Overall Green Earthquake alert in Ecuador on 19 Sep 2025 22:33 UTC

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M 4.9 in Ecuador on 19 Sep 2025 22:33 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 1501128
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	34.5 Km
Lat/Lon:	-0.525 , -80.3016
Event Date:	19 Sep 2025 22:33 UTC 19 Sep 2025 17:33 Local
Exposed Population:	50 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	19 Sep 2025 23:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000qxh4	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.

Virtual OSOCC

Meteo assessment

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),

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