M 5.1 in Guatemala on 20 Aug 2017 23:29 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 1119702
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 59.36 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.1032 , -91.6041
Event Date: 20 Aug 2017 23:29 UTC
20 Aug 2017 17:29 Local
Exposed Population:
3570000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2017 00:33 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 0.4 0.4
us2000aa12 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)

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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),