Overall Green Earthquake alert in Guatemala on 13 Nov 2019 16:28 UTC

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M 5.5 in Guatemala on 13 Nov 2019 16:28 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 1193454
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	60.87 Km
Lat/Lon:	13.6722 , -90.9634
Event Date:	13 Nov 2019 16:28 UTC 13 Nov 2019 10:28 Local
Exposed Population:	1540000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Nov 2019 16:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Guatemala= 5.5; El Salvador= 4.6

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us60006b3s	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.05

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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),

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