Overall Green Earthquake alert in Ecuador on 19 Dec 2016 08:57 UTC

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M 4.5 in Ecuador on 19 Dec 2016 08:57 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 1101285
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	0.7565 , -79.7622
Event Date:	19 Dec 2016 08:57 UTC 19 Dec 2016 03:57 Local
Exposed Population:	603290 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Dec 2016 09:22 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us200082ix	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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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