M 7.4 in Guatemala on 07 Nov 2012 16:35 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 120715
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.4M
Depth: 41.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.0828 , -91.9161
Event Date: 07 Nov 2012 16:35 UTC
07 Nov 2012 10:35 Local
Exposed Population: 180000 people in MMI
2680000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 13:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1.5 0.2 1.5
usb000dlwm Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.24m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1728 | About casualties: 244 | Last hour: 0

UPDATE1: Massive search conducted for missing 2011 tsunami victimsSun, 11 Nov 2012 14:46:00 +0100.

Police and coast guard officers on Sunday conducted a massive search operation in Japan's Pacific coastal areas for people who remain listed as missing following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The operation was conducted in coa
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Guatemala: Unesco donará USD 50.000 a Guatemala tras potente terremotoSun, 11 Nov 2012 14:24:00 +0100.

El Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Cultura, la Ciencia y la Educación (Unesco) donará 50.000 dólares para restituir el material escolar destruido durante el terremoto del miércoles en Guatemala que dejó 42 muertos, informó el organismo
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Japão lança operação intensiva de busca de desaparecidos no tsunamiSun, 11 Nov 2012 14:05:00 +0100.

As autoridades do nordeste do Japão lançaram hoje uma operação de busca intensiva dos corpos dos mais de 2.500 desaparecidos no tsunami de março de 2011, quando se assinalam 20 meses da tragédia.
Myanmar Sends Rescue Teams After Magnitude 6.6 EarthquakeSun, 11 Nov 2012 13:49:00 +0100.

Myanmar sent rescue teams, water and food to affected regions after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Southeast Asian country, a government official said. At least two people were killed and more than 10 were injured as the temblor shoo
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),