M 6.7 in Nicaragua on 21 Apr 2022 07:42 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 1319155
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 25.33 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.5538 , -86.9919
Event Date: 21 Apr 2022 07:42 UTC
21 Apr 2022 01:42 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VI
910 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Apr 2022 08:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000hf75 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.07m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.07m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.02      
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Latest media headlines

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Nicaragua - Earthquake (GDACS, USGS , SINAPRED, INETER, media, media) .. 4/22/2022 1:42:00 PM.

An earthquake of 6.7 M (6.8 M as reported by the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies - INETER) at a depth of 25 km occurred off the central-western coast of Nicaragua on 21 April at 7:42 UTC (1:42 local time). The epicentre was loca
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Nicaragua rattled by 6.7-magnitude earthquake 4/21/2022 4:44:00 PM.

The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was rattled by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake early Wednesday. But the country’s national disaster prevention agency did not immediately report any damages or deaths.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),