Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nicaragua on 09 Feb 2016 12:12 UTC

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M 5 in Nicaragua on 09 Feb 2016 12:12 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 1080295
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	38.94 Km
Lat/Lon:	11.1366 , -86.7727
Event Date:	09 Feb 2016 12:12 UTC 09 Feb 2016 06:12 Local
Exposed Population:	264703 people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Feb 2016 12:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Volcán Masaya de Nicaragua aumenta magma y movimiento sísmico 2/11/2016 4:46:00 PM.

Managua.- El volcán Masaya aumentó a casi el doble el movimiento de magma y su sismicidad, alertó hoy el Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (Ineter). Las señales la dan el nivel de Amplitud Sísmica en Tiempo Real (RSAM, por su

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Volcán Masaya de Nicaragua aumenta magma y movimiento sísmico 2/11/2016 3:49:00 AM.

El volcán Masaya aumentó a casi el doble el movimiento de magma y su sismicidad, alertó hoy el Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (Ineter). Las señales la dan el nivel de Amplitud Sísmica en Tiempo Real (RSAM, por sus siglas e

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Aumenta magma y actividad sísmica en volcán Masaya de Nicaragua 2/10/2016 9:02:00 PM.

El RSAM mide en tiempo real la actividad total de un volcán, desde movimiento de magma, caída de rocas y hasta sismos, y es una de las herramientas de los vulcanólogos para calcular la posible dimensión de una erupción. El volcán causó alar

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Volcán Masaya aumenta su magma y la sismicidad 2/10/2016 8:15:00 PM.

El volcán Masaya aumentó a casi el doble el movimiento de magma y su sismicidad, alertó este miércoles el Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (Ineter). Las señales la dan el nivel de Amplitud Sísmica en Tiempo Real (RSAM, por s

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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