M 5.9 in Mexico on 19 Feb 2018 06:57 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 1135146
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 40.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.4993 , -97.579
Event Date: 19 Feb 2018 06:57 UTC
19 Feb 2018 00:57 Local
Exposed Population: 1070000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2018 07:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d4lg Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 710 | About casualties: 82 | Last hour: 0

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Declaraciones de Compañera Rosario, Vicepresidenta de Nicaragua, en Edición del Mediodía de Multinoticias Canal 4. 22 de Febrero del 2018. Buenas tardes, Compañera; buenas tardes, queridas Familias de nuestra Nicaragua, Bendita, Unida, Siem
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People react after an earthquake shook buildings of the Tlalpan housin ... Fri, 23 Feb 2018 05:12:00 +0100.

Source: Reuters - Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:57 AM. People react after an earthquake shook buildings of the Tlalpan housing project, five months after the September 19 earthquake, in the Educacion neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico February 16,
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People eat in a makeshift shelter for families affected by an earthqua ... Fri, 23 Feb 2018 05:12:00 +0100.

Source: Reuters - Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:57 AM. People eat in a makeshift shelter for families affected by an earthquake in the Tlalpan housing project, five months after the September 19 earthquake, in the Educacion neighborhood in Mexico Ci
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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),