M 5.5 in Nicaragua on 17 Apr 2024 21:21 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 1424580
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 151 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.1362 , -85.3425
Event Date: 17 Apr 2024 21:21 UTC
17 Apr 2024 15:21 Local
Exposed Population: 1.2 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2024 21:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mcrs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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di Andrea Costanzo. Uno dei nodi da sciogliere per il nuovo presidente guatemalteco Bernardo Arevalo, eletto nell’agosto del 2023 dopo il ballottaggio con la vedova del defunto ex presidente Alvaro Colom, Sandra Torres, è quello di decidere
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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), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),