Overall Green Earthquake alert in Ecuador on 16 May 2017 15:59 UTC

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M 4.6 in Ecuador on 16 May 2017 15:59 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 1113151
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	56.87 Km
Lat/Lon:	-2.2085 , -80.2783
Event Date:	16 May 2017 15:59 UTC 16 May 2017 10:59 Local
Exposed Population:	4340000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 May 2017 18:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008sr2	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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),

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