M 4.6 in Guatemala on 15 Jan 2017 14:12 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 1103299
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 14.4055 , -90.1635
Event Date: 15 Jan 2017 14:12 UTC
15 Jan 2017 08:12 Local
Exposed Population:
7980000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2017 15:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; Honduras= 5.2; El Salvador= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us10007te1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),