M 4.8 in Ecuador on 06 May 2024 15:32 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 1427611
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.4867 , -77.6664
Event Date: 06 May 2024 15:32 UTC
06 May 2024 10:32 Local
Exposed Population:
180 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 06 May 2024 15:52 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
us6000mwq2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 1

Carlo Acutis, la partita delle vita si gioca con Dio, incontro al Semi ... 2024-05-10T15:32+0200.

Carlo Acutis, la partita della vita si gioca con Dio è il titolo dell’incontro in programma mercoledì 15 maggio alle ore 18 al Seminario vescovile di via Scalabrini a Piacenza, nella cornice di alcuni eventi che in diocesi sono dedicati al
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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
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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),