M 6.7 in Nicaragua on 21 Apr 2022 07:42 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 1319155
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 25.33 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.5538 , -86.9919
Event Date: 21 Apr 2022 07:42 UTC
21 Apr 2022 01:42 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
910 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Apr 2022 08:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000hf75 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.07m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.07m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.02      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 607 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Indonésie : l'Anak Krakatoa en éruption, nuage de cendres de 3 km de h ... 2022-04-25T04:12+0200.

"Nous enregistrons toujours des éruptions continues aves des nuages épais culminant à entre 500 et 3.000 m au-dessus du sommet" , a déclaré Deny Mardiono de l'Agence géologique indonésienne. L'Anak Krakatoa, ou "Enfant du Krakatoa", une île
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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 (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),