M 4.5 in El Salvador on 18 Dec 2021 06:12 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 1302266
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 51.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.7517 , -88.641
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 06:12 UTC
18 Dec 2021 00:12 Local
Exposed Population:
1.1 million in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 06:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdcs Scaled population (vector) 5.35  
  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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),