M 4.8 in Mexico on 13 Feb 2017 07:29 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 1105462
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 56.66 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.3413 , -99.5929
Event Date: 13 Feb 2017 07:29 UTC
13 Feb 2017 01:29 Local
Exposed Population:
2030000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2017 08:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008jh0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),