M 5.4 in Ecuador on 20 Sep 2020 09:42 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 1236059
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.6026 , -95.2291
Event Date: 20 Sep 2020 09:42 UTC
20 Sep 2020 03:42 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2020 09:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bqg0 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Dr. Meysam Rezaeifar – Research FellowMon, 21 Sep 2020 12:52:00 +0200.

Qualifications. 2009 – B.S.c in Mining Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. 2011 – M.S.c in Seismology, Institute of Geophysic, University of Technology, Kerman, Iran. 2018 – Ph.D. in Seismology, Institute of Geophysic, ETH
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Una organización sin precedente en el mundoSun, 20 Sep 2020 02:18:00 +0200.

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Brigada médica Henry Reeve cumple su 15 Aniversario en medio de una pa ... Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:06:00 +0200.

El Contingente Internacional de Médicos Especializados en Situaciones de Desastre y Graves Epidemias “Henry Reeve” cumple hoy su 15 Aniversario, en medio de una pandemia mundial, un contexto en el que ha significado un gran apoyo para el co
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Belt of Fire, the place where most earthquakes are born in the worldWed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another)
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),