M 4.6 in Ecuador on 18 Jun 2024 17:11 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 1433727
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 145.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.1881 , -77.2275
Event Date: 18 Jun 2024 17:11 UTC
18 Jun 2024 12:11 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 18 Jun 2024 19:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Ecuador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mt8i 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: 0

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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),