M 6.7 in Ecuador on 18 May 2016 07:57 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 1086489
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 32.42 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.4282 , -79.765
Event Date: 18 May 2016 07:57 UTC
18 May 2016 02:57 Local
Exposed Population: 190000 people in MMI
700000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2016 08:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0 0.9
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),