M 5.6 in Ecuador on 05 Jun 2017 11:34 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 1114420
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 50.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.1044 , -80.3835
Event Date: 05 Jun 2017 11:34 UTC
05 Jun 2017 06:34 Local
Exposed Population: 1220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jun 2017 11:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Peru= 4.6; Ecuador= 4.3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
us20009kr6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),