M 6 in Honduras on 16 Apr 2020 08:04 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 1214311
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.9332 , -85.7099
Event Date: 16 Apr 2020 08:04 UTC
16 Apr 2020 02:04 Local
Exposed Population: About 18000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2020 08:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.2 (Honduras)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008xeb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.01  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),