M 6.2 in Mexico on 21 Aug 2013 12:38 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 1003069
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.9168 , -99.3814
Event Date: 21 Aug 2013 12:38 UTC
21 Aug 2013 07:38 Local
Exposed Population:
1863269 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2013 13:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
usb000j83t Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 495 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Tokyo lacks any sense of urgencySun, 25 Aug 2013 07:09:00 +0200.

Leakage from the Fukushima nuclear complex, which was crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami two years ago, is ballooning into a catastrophic disaster. The nuclear operator Tokyo Electric Power recently admitted that a radioactive wat
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Radioactive ground water under Fukushima nears seaSun, 25 Aug 2013 07:08:00 +0200.

The looming crisis is potentially far greater than the discovery earlier this week of a leak from a tank used to store contaminated water used to cool the reactor cores.

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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),