Overall Orange Earthquake in Mexico from 08 Sep 2017 04:49 UTC to 04:49

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M 8 Earthquake and Tsunami (1.9 m) in Mexico from 08 Sep 2017 04:49 UTC to 04:49

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 1120837
Earthquake Magnitude:	8.0M
Glide number:	EQ-2017-000128-MEX
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	15.21 , -93.72
Event Date:	08 Sep 2017 04:49 UTC 07 Sep 2017 22:49 Local
Exposed Population:	180000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Sep 2017 04:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
GEOFON	0.4		1.4		1.4
gfz2017rpdi	Scaled population (vector)	4.45	Max wave scenario	3.36m
	C1 earthquake	1	Max wave realtime	1.87m
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	-1
	INFORM_normalised	0.92

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Virtual OSOCC

Meteo assessment

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Analytical products

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Asciende a 96 la cifra de muertos por el terremoto en México 9/12/2017 3:07:00 AM.

México: Sube a 95 el saldo de muertos por terremo... 9/12/2017 3:06:00 AM.

Son 96 los muertos por terremoto en México 9/12/2017 3:03:00 AM.

Secretario de salud asegura abasto médico tras terremoto 9/12/2017 2:54:00 AM.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

12/Sep/2017 06:45 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),

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