M 5.8 in Guatemala on 09 Jan 2025 16:31 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 1461489
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 94.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.5917 , -89.7442
Event Date: 09 Jan 2025 16:31 UTC
09 Jan 2025 10:31 Local
Exposed Population: 90 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2025 16:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pixh Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),