M 4.9 in Guatemala on 18 Apr 2017 23:39 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 1110612
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.8369 , -91.9579
Event Date: 18 Apr 2017 23:39 UTC
18 Apr 2017 17:39 Local
Exposed Population:
1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2017 00:00 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 0.2 0.2
us10008iur Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 170 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

مدير مرصد الدول العربية في باريس أنطوان بصبوص لـ"الشروق": انتخابات هذا ... Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:32:00 +0200.

يشرح مدير مرصد الدول العربية في باريس أنطوان بصبوص، راهنية الانتخابات الفرنسية المقررة هذا الأحد، ويؤكد صاحب كتاب "التسونامي العربي" في هذا الحوار مع "الشروق"، أن من شأنها إنهاء وجود معسكر اليمن واليسار، وعن خيارات الناخبين فيذكر أنها ستكون
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MLA calls to set up corpus to help farmersSat, 22 Apr 2017 20:23:00 +0200.

Koundanpalayam MLA V C Arukutty today called for a collective effort to help the farmers repay their loans and in this regard suggested opening of a separate account like the tsunami relief fund. He also announced his contribution of Rs.50,
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Kemenko Maritim Pantau Bandara Kulon ProgoSat, 22 Apr 2017 20:11:00 +0200.

Bisnis.com, JAKARTA Kementerian Koordinator Bidang Kemaritiman tengah memantau progress pembangunan Bandara Kulon Progo, Jawa Tengah untuk menunjang akses ke Borobudur. Deputi Bidang Koordinasi Infrastruktur Kemenko Bidang Kemaritiman, Ridw
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MLA calls to set up corpus to help farmersSat, 22 Apr 2017 18:47:00 +0200.

Coimbatore, Apr 22 (PTI) Koundanpalayam MLA V C Arukutty today called for a collective effort to help the farmers repay their loans and in this regard suggested opening of a separate account like the. Coimbatore, Apr 22 (PTI) Koundanpalaya
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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),