M 4.7 in Near Coast Of Guatemala on 23 Jan 2021 04:58 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 1252781
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.4239 , -90.9226
Event Date: 23 Jan 2021 04:58 UTC
22 Jan 2021 22:58 Local
Exposed Population:
640000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2021 05:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; El Salvador= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d2lp Scaled population (vector) 5.08  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.19  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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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),