M 4.5 in El Salvador on 26 Jul 2024 23:15 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 1439227
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 174 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.5155 , -88.4498
Event Date: 26 Jul 2024 23:15 UTC
26 Jul 2024 17:15 Local
Exposed Population:
5.2 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2024 23:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ng9n Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 2

Terremoto El Salvador, scossa di magnitudo stimata 5.0 a Puerto El Tri ... 2024-07-27T13:13+0200.

Scossa di terremoto. Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo stimata attorno a 5.0, si è verificata alle ore 01:00 (ore 11:27 in Italia) con epicentro nei pressi di Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. La profondità stimata è stata di circa 69 Km .
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Moderate mag. 4.3 earthquake - 65 km south of San Miguel, San Miguel, ... 2024-07-27T11:48+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is San Miguel , a city with more than 160,000 inhabitants in El Salvador , in 61 km (38 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking t
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Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - 36 km southwest of Usulutan, Usulutan, El ... 2024-07-27T01:47+0200.

Seismic station: Montecristo, El Salvador (SNET/SV network) | Distance from quake: 87 km / 54 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves ar
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Voltaire, Candido o l’ottimismo2024-07-27T00:46+0200.

Un libro talvolta è un pretesto per dire altro, un Illuminista come Voltaire lo fa per confutare le dottrine ottimistiche imperanti dopo le uscite leibniziane. Ci fu il terremoto Lisbona del 1755 che imponeva di riprendere a osservare il mo
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),