M 4.7 in Mexico on 08 Oct 2014 09:24 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 1041069
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 78.68 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.72 , -92.37
Event Date: 08 Oct 2014 09:24 UTC
08 Oct 2014 04:24 Local
Exposed Population:
3080136 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Oct 2014 09:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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6.2-magnitude quake strikes near Mexican coast 10/8/2014 8:02:00 AM.

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6.2-magnitude quake strikes near Mexican coast 10/8/2014 6:17:00 AM.

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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 (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),