M 4.6 in Guatemala on 12 Mar 2023 04:39 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 1364372
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 75.949 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.7839 , -90.546
Event Date: 12 Mar 2023 04:39 UTC
11 Mar 2023 22:39 Local
Exposed Population:
140 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2023 04:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jjah Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),