M 4.6 in El Salvador on 29 May 2025 16:27 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 1483712
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 68.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.0983 , -89.0043
Event Date: 29 May 2025 16:27 UTC
29 May 2025 10:27 Local
Exposed Population:
90 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 29 May 2025 17:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qgpv 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),