M 4.9 in Guatemala on 20 Sep 2017 02:37 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 1121886
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 177.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.5296 , -90.9069
Event Date: 20 Sep 2017 02:37 UTC
19 Sep 2017 20:37 Local
Exposed Population:
8670000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2017 02:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000arfs Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),