M 4.8 in Guatemala on 14 Apr 2024 19:14 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 1424171
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 81 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.9522 , -91.1647
Event Date: 14 Apr 2024 19:14 UTC
14 Apr 2024 13:14 Local
Exposed Population:
610 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2024 19:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mc2f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 985 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 27

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Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area. The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had
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Elevan al máximo la alerta por volcán Ruang en Indonesia2024-04-18T17:57+0200.

Las autoridades buscan evacuar a 11 mil habitantes de la zona cercana al volcán Ruang. elevaron al máximo el nivel de alerta por la erupción del volcán Ruang, situado en la provincia de Célebes Septentrional, por lo que ha pedido la evacua
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Evacúan a más de 30 mil personas por fuerte erupción de volcán en Indo ... 2024-04-18T17:56+0200.

Los rescatistas se apresuran este jueves para evacuar a miles de personas por la erupción de un volcán en una zona remota de Indonesia que obligó a las autoridades a emitir una alerta de tsunami por el riesgo de caída de rocas al mar. El
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Baja California Sur registra sismo de magnitud 5.22024-04-18T17:48+0200.

Ante una actividad sísmica de importancia, el Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres (Cenapred) recomienda no caer en rumores, ni noticias falsas y solo informarse en fuentes oficiales, como las autoridades de Protección Civil, tanto lo
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),