Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 27 Oct 2015 22:25 UTC

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M 4.5 in Mexico on 27 Oct 2015 22:25 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 1070446
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	16.725 , -98.051
Event Date:	27 Oct 2015 22:25 UTC 27 Oct 2015 16:25 Local
Exposed Population:	1011445 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Oct 2015 22:48 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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

Gracias, HAARP 10/31/2015 1:45:00 PM.

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Hurricane brings rare praise for Mexico president 10/30/2015 1:21:00 AM.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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