M 5.8 in Guatemala on 12 Nov 2022 04:39 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 1345905
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 99.622 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.1232 , -90.787
Event Date: 12 Nov 2022 04:39 UTC
11 Nov 2022 22:39 Local
Exposed Population: 90 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 12 Nov 2022 04:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ip7p Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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Latest media headlines

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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),