M 4.7 in Nicaragua on 30 Apr 2022 05:09 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 1320683
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 68.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.5566 , -88.0131
Event Date: 30 Apr 2022 05:09 UTC
29 Apr 2022 23:09 Local
Exposed Population:
560 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 30 Apr 2022 05:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Honduras= 5.2; El Salvador= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000h607 Scaled population (vector) 4.86  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 57 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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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),