M 6.3 in Mexico from 02 Apr 2012 17:36 UTC to 17:36

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 115855
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 12.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.4769 , -98.2867
Event Date: 02 Apr 2012 17:36 UTC
02 Apr 2012 12:36 Local
Exposed Population:
828614 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Apr 2012 17:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
usc0008ui2 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Dallas Tornado 2012: Flight Cancellations Continue at DFW Airport 4/6/2012 5:18:00 PM.

Hundreds more American Airlines flights were canceled on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the wake of Tuesday's powerful tornado-riddled storm.
US Coast Guard sinks tsunami 'ghost ship' 4/6/2012 5:00:00 PM.

Machine guns trained on Ryou-Un Maru, laden with diesel and drifting into shipping lanes off the coast of Alaska The US coastguard has machine-gunned and sunk a derelict and fuel-laden Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by the 2011 J
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Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk by US coastguard 4/6/2012 5:00:00 PM.

Ryou-Un Maru's voyage across the Pacific Ocean ends after a year floating in busy shipping lanes The Ryou-Un-Maru's year-long voyage across the Pacific Ocean ended in a blaze of gunfire and plumes of smoke on Friday after the Japanese fishi
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Hundieron a bombazos al "barco fantasma" 4/6/2012 4:56:00 PM.

La Guardia Costera de EEUU ha hundido con éxito el pesquero japonés Ryon-Un Maru a la deriva desde el tsunami del pasado año a las 18.15 hora local de Alaska (2:15 GMT del viernes). El "barco fantasma" japonés se hundió a unas 180 millas de
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),