Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nicaragua on 24 Feb 2016 00:38 UTC

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M 4.6 in Nicaragua on 24 Feb 2016 00:38 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 1081232
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	42.02 Km
Lat/Lon:	11.6011 , -87.2691
Event Date:	24 Feb 2016 00:38 UTC 23 Feb 2016 18:38 Local
Exposed Population:	308870 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Feb 2016 04:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Nicaragua: Ineter brinda informe del comportamiento de los volcanes 2/25/2016 1:51:00 PM.

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Actividad volcánica de Nicaragua se mantiene en rangos normales 2/24/2016 11:32:00 PM.

La actividad que han registrado los volcanes Momotombo, Santiago de Masaya y el Telica, se mantienen dentro de los rangos normales y no representan hasta el momento ningún peligro para las comunidades que se ubican en sus alrededores. El vu

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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