M 5.3 in Guatemala on 12 Jan 2017 03:22 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 1103031
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 56.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.9381 , -91.1743
Event Date: 12 Jan 2017 03:22 UTC
11 Jan 2017 21:22 Local
Exposed Population:
3920000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2017 03:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us10007srd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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

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),