M 4.8 in Mexico on 23 Feb 2017 09:47 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 1106242
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 75.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.1889 , -95.4139
Event Date: 23 Feb 2017 09:47 UTC
23 Feb 2017 03:47 Local
Exposed Population:
600000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2017 10:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
us20008lqk 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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

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),