M 5.9 in Guatemala on 19 Dec 2019 12:35 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 1198837
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 31.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.6896 , -91.3137
Event Date: 19 Dec 2019 12:35 UTC
19 Dec 2019 06:35 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
1260000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2019 12:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006ng5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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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.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),