M 4.5 in El Salvador on 13 Dec 2021 23:40 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 1301403
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 60.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.895 , -88.8833
Event Date: 13 Dec 2021 23:40 UTC
13 Dec 2021 17:40 Local
Exposed Population:
3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2021 00:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gc1b Scaled population (vector) 5.73  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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),