M 6 in Mexico on 30 Jun 2018 03:56 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 1148208
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 24.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.0696 , -105.093
Event Date: 30 Jun 2018 03:56 UTC
29 Jun 2018 20:56 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jun 2018 04:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000frwr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 98 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Crearán base de datos de damnificados para integrar el censoTue, 03 Jul 2018 11:12:00 +0200.

El Gobierno de la Ciudad de México informó que elaborará un sistema de datos personales de los damnificados por el sismo del pasado 19 de septiembre como instrumento para realizar el estudio socioeconómico que permita integrar el censo de a
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Satellites map fire on Saddleworth MoorMon, 02 Jul 2018 21:13:00 +0200.

The U.K. Space Agency has worked with partners to activate the Copernicus Emergency Management Service to provide satellite mapping to aid the response to fires burning on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester. U.K. satellite imagery was al
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Earthquakes could be detected using undersea telecoms cablesMon, 02 Jul 2018 16:24:00 +0200.

The more than 1 million kilometres of fibre-optic cable that criss-crosses the world’s oceans could be used to create a global seismic network, says an international team of scientists. They have shown that variations in the phase of ultra-
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6.0 quake strikes western coast of Mexico – USGSSun, 01 Jul 2018 04:13:00 +0200.

A powerful 6.0 earthquake has struck off the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the USGS reports. The quake, according to an initial reading, happened offshore at a depth of 10 kilometers, some 58 kilometers west of Cihuatlan, in the state of Jalisco
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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),