M 6.2 in Nicaragua on 09 Nov 2021 06:25 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 1294927
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.2315 , -86.5185
Event Date: 09 Nov 2021 06:25 UTC
09 Nov 2021 00:25 Local
Exposed Population: About 14000 people in MMI
1 million in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Nov 2021 06:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000fsku Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.02      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Govt departments directed to make plantation campaign successful2021-11-11T20:42+0100.

Commissioner Rawalpindi Division, Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah on Thursday directed the authorities concerned of all the government departments to make the ongoing plantation campaign a success and set up nurseries in their respective office pr
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Japan’s outspoken nun and author Jakucho Setouchi dies at 992021-11-11T17:55+0100.

Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun and one of Japan’s best-known authors known for novels depicting passionate women and her translation of “The Tale of Genji,” a 1,000-year-old classic, into modern language, has died. She was 99. Setouchi w
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),