M 6 in Honduras on 16 Apr 2020 08:04 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 1214311
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.9332 , -85.7099
Event Date: 16 Apr 2020 08:04 UTC
16 Apr 2020 02:04 Local
Exposed Population: About 18000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2020 08:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.2 (Honduras)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008xeb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.01  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 38 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Vibrations from earthquake off Honduras’ Caribbean coast felt in Beliz ... Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:34:00 +0200.

BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 16, 2020– Some Belizeans were shaken awake at about 2:00 this morning, April 16, 2020, by vibrations from a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Savannah Bight, near the Bay Islands of Honduras. There were no reports of any
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Sismo de 6 grados sacudió Centroamérica y MéxicoFri, 17 Apr 2020 05:37:00 +0200.

El evento no reunió las condiciones para generar una alerta de tsunami en el mar Caribe, informaron los científicos. Un sismo de 6 grados en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió la madrugada de este jueves el mar Caribe y fue sentido en Ce
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Un terremoto de 6.4 grados se registra en el Caribe de HondurasFri, 17 Apr 2020 04:55:00 +0200.

Tegucigalpa - Un terremoto de 6.4 grados en la escala de Richter se registró este jueves 16 de abril en el Caribe de Honduras. -El sismo se sintió en Belice y sur de México. Según información del Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territor
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Sismo magnitud 6.3 sacude Honduras; se percibe en Quintana Roo y Tabas ... Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:39:00 +0200.

Un sismo de magnitud 6.3 con epicentro frente a las costas de Coxen Hole, Honduras, se percibió en varios municipios de Quintana Roo y Tabasco, sin que se reportaran hasta el momento víctimas ni daños materiales. La fuerte sacudida también
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),