M 4.9 in Honduras on 17 Dec 2021 13:58 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 1302150
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.9431 , -85.3807
Event Date: 17 Dec 2021 13:58 UTC
17 Dec 2021 07:58 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2021 14:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Honduras)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gd33 Scaled population (vector) 3.2  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),