M 6.2 in Guatemala on 25 Mar 2013 23:02 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 123438
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 200.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.5994 , -90.4279
Event Date: 25 Mar 2013 23:02 UTC
25 Mar 2013 17:02 Local
Exposed Population:
7978206 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2013 23:19 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000fshy Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),