M 6.4 in Guatemala on 17 May 2023 23:02 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 1374429
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 255.562 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.1212 , -90.8546
Event Date: 17 May 2023 23:02 UTC
17 May 2023 17:02 Local
Exposed Population: 10.4 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 17 May 2023 23:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kcnb Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),