M 6.1 in Guatemala on 28 Aug 2024 21:57 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 1443819
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 33.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.998 , -89.5623
Event Date: 28 Aug 2024 21:57 UTC
28 Aug 2024 15:57 Local
Exposed Population: 3.8 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2024 22:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nncs Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),