M 7.6 in Honduras on 10 Jan 2018 02:51 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 1130552
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.4693 , -83.5197
Event Date: 10 Jan 2018 02:51 UTC
09 Jan 2018 20:51 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2018 03:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Honduras)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.19 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.4 0
us1000c2zy Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.45m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),