M 5 in Mexico on 12 Jan 2017 10:26 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 1103054
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.8233 , -98.3622
Event Date: 12 Jan 2017 10:26 UTC
12 Jan 2017 04:26 Local
Exposed Population:
1190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2017 10:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10007suf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 357 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

ماذا سيحدث لو قفز سكان العالم في وقت واحد؟!Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:29:00 +0100.

تساءل العلماء عما إذا قفز كل الناس معا في لحظة واحدة، وقالوا إذا أخذنا 50 مليونا من البشر كوحدة لحسابنا، وكان متوسط وزن كل منهم 60 كيلوغراما، وقفزوا متجاورين في موقع واحد إلى ارتفاع نصف متر، لسببوا ضجة كبرى. ولأحدثوا زلزالا متوسطا (3.6 من د
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„România are o conduita exemplara ca membru al NATO si ali ... Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:14:00 +0100.

Fostul preşedinte al Camerei Reprezentanţilor, John Boehner, a salutat conduita exemplară a României în calitate de membru NATO, aliat şi partener al Statelor Unite în cadrul unei întâlniri cu ambasadorul României la Washington, George Cris
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Un terremoto de magnitud 5,8 sacude el norte de Vanuatu, en el Pacífic ... Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:08:00 +0100.

Sídney (Australia), 16 ene (EFE).- Un terremoto de magnitud 5,8 sacudió hoy el norte del archipiélago de Vanuatu, en el Pacífico Sur, sin que las autoridades hayan informado de daños o víctimas o se haya emitido una alerta por tsunami. El S
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Terremoto atinge Vanuatu, no Oceano PacíficoMon, 16 Jan 2017 04:12:00 +0100.

Um terremoto de 5,8 graus sacudiu nesta segunda-feira (16) o norte do arquipélago de Vanuatu, no sul do Oceano Pacífico. Autoridades não emitiram alerta de tsunami nem há relatos de danos ou vítimas até o momento. O epicentro do tremor oco
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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.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),