M 4.6 in Guatemala on 14 Sep 2020 14:29 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 1234391
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 135.61 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.4172 , -91.0839
Event Date: 14 Sep 2020 14:29 UTC
14 Sep 2020 08:29 Local
Exposed Population:
8840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Sep 2020 15:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bn11 Scaled population (vector) 6.96  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.19  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Belt of Fire, the place where most earthquakes are born in the worldWed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another)
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Nobel Peace Prize: A case for the White Coat ArmyFri, 11 Sep 2020 05:04:00 +0200.

By Owei Lakemfa. THE British cruise ship, MS Braemer with 682 passengers from ten countries was in March 2020 virtually adrift in the Caribbean with no destination habour and no port willing to allow it dock because the coronavirus COVID-19
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World: WFP Latin America & Caribbean Region COVID-19 Logistics Situati ... Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:30:00 +0200.

1. Highlights. Constraints. Hurricane Season. Atlantic Hurricane Marco (Category 1): It has reached hurricane (CAT 1) over Gulf of Mexico on 23 August after passing close by Yucatan Peninsula, Nicaragua and Honduras and causing minor impact
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Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake Shakes Guatemala Early This Morning, Resident ... Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:01:00 +0200.

Image: Volcanodiscovery.com. The epicenter of the earthquake appears to be close to the coast of Guatemala. A 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Guatemala, 6 km to the south of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, the country’s seismologists said. The qua
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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),