M 6.2 in Guatemala on 05 Jan 2025 17:18 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 1460805
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 49.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.053 , -89.1723
Event Date: 05 Jan 2025 17:18 UTC
05 Jan 2025 11:18 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2025 17:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000pi09 Scaled population (raster) 0.6 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.94      
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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.
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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 (92), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),