Ecuador Earthquake Impact Analysis for October 2025

547,397 people were impacted within 50km of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake near Santa Rosa, Ecuador on October 22, 2025. The dataset provides geospatial and socio-economic analysis from the World Food Programme's Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system. It was last updated in May 2026 and is available in GeoJSON and CSV formats.

Use Cases

• Map the earthquake's impact zone based on the provided epicenter coordinates and 50km radius.
• Estimate affected population for resource allocation using the reported impact figure of 547,397 people.
• Analyze event characteristics for seismic hazard modeling based on the magnitude and depth parameters.

Strengths

• Includes precise event parameters: magnitude 5.5, depth of 69.758 km, and exact epicenter coordinates.
• Provides a concrete impact metric, estimating 547,397 people affected within a 50km radius.
• Data originates from an operational humanitarian analysis system (WFP ADAM).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and granularity require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping (ADAM)

Collection Method

Automated collection, analysis, and mapping of geospatial and socio-economic information following a sudden-onset emergency.

Time Range

Primary event date: October 22, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 22:09:18.825535; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ecuador, specifically 25km SE of Santa Rosa (latitude -3.6247, longitude -79.8229).