M 5.1 in Guatemala on 22 Sep 2024 02:25 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 1446669
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 75.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.1845 , -89.3949
Event Date: 22 Sep 2024 02:25 UTC
21 Sep 2024 20:25 Local
Exposed Population:
3.4 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2024 02:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ntl2 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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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),