M 5.8 in Mexico on 20 May 2017 06:02 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 1113398
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.4291 , -105.3654
Event Date: 20 May 2017 06:02 UTC
19 May 2017 23:02 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2017 06:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008tqj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 213 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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El gran tsunami de Tenerife que generó una ola de 130 metros de alturaWed, 24 May 2017 02:32:00 +0200.

Canarias El gran tsunami de Tenerife que generó una ola de 130 metros de altura. Un grupo de científicos demuestra hay piedra pómez con cenizas volcánicas fosilizadas a una altura de 132 metros sobre el nivel del mar La isla de Tenerife ma
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Más de 100 brigadistas se alistan para Simulacro de Sismo y TsunamiWed, 24 May 2017 02:30:00 +0200.

Más de 100 brigadistas de instituciones de primera respuesta de Lambayeque participarán en el Simulacro de Sismo y Tsunami, que se desarrollará este 31 de mayo en la localidad de San José, considerada como centro piloto. El jefe regional d
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Hazard Management chief receives awardWed, 24 May 2017 01:04:00 +0200.

Hazard Management Cayman Islands Director McCleary Frederick was named the first international recipient of the Governor’s Hurricane Conference Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to disaster preparedness and recovery. The annu
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),