Overall Green Earthquake alert in Ecuador on 12 Aug 2014 19:57 UTC

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M 5.1 in Ecuador on 12 Aug 2014 19:57 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 1037708
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	5.38 Km
Lat/Lon:	-0.08 , -78.3
Event Date:	12 Aug 2014 19:57 UTC 12 Aug 2014 14:57 Local
Exposed Population:	About 31000 people in MMI 3220000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	13 Aug 2014 15:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
usb000s27f	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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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),

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