M 4.7 in Guatemala on 13 Mar 2017 21:04 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 1107696
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 37.51 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.8276 , -92.2693
Event Date: 13 Mar 2017 21:04 UTC
13 Mar 2017 15:04 Local
Exposed Population:
390000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Mar 2017 21:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; Mexico= 4.4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us100088rh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),