M 5 in Ecuador on 06 May 2024 15:17 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 1427609
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.4275 , -77.5558
Event Date: 06 May 2024 15:17 UTC
06 May 2024 10:17 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 06 May 2024 16:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Ecuador= 4.3; Colombia= 4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwpy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Ecuador: Floods + Earthquake - March 2023 DREF Final Report MDREC0212024-05-09T08:19+0200.

Description of the Event. Date of event. 2023-03-20. What happened, where and when? Rainy season: According to the National Regional Study of the El Niño Phenomenon (ERFEN, by its initials in Spanish) Committee, abnormal warming was observe
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Ecuador: Floods and Earthquakes – March 2023 DREF Final Report MDREC02 ... 2024-05-09T04:34+0200.

Earthquake: On March 18, 2023, in the Gulf of Guayaquil, a seismic event with a magnitude of 6.64 Mw, a depth of 63.1 km, and a total of 72 aftershocks ranging between 2.1 and 4.6 MeV was recorded. Although the main epicenter and aftershock
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Ecuador: Floods + Earthquake - March 2023 DREF Final Report MDREC0212024-05-09T02:45+0200.

Description of the Event. Date of event. 2023-03-20. What happened, where and when? Rainy season: According to the National Regional Study of the El Niño Phenomenon (ERFEN, by its initials in Spanish) Committee, abnormal warming was observe
...(more)
Sustainability, Vol. 16, Pages 3918: The Collapse of the Vaults of the ... 2024-05-08T08:26+0200.

This research examines the structural behavior of the central vault of the Matriz church that collapsed during the 1949 earthquake in Ambato, Ecuador. Following the disaster, the church and Episcopal Palace were demolished. The central vaul
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),