M 4.6 in Nicaragua on 22 Feb 2021 21:05 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 1257052
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.0895 , -87.9102
Event Date: 22 Feb 2021 21:05 UTC
22 Feb 2021 15:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 57000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Feb 2021 22:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dk7z Scaled population (vector) 3.76  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
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Latest media headlines

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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),