M 4.6 in Mexico on 15 Sep 2013 09:23 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 1005628
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 8.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.7912 , -105.6816
Event Date: 15 Sep 2013 09:23 UTC
15 Sep 2013 03:23 Local
Exposed Population:
570199 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2013 09:52 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usc000juue 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 525 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Japanese school ordered to pay $1.8 million over tsunami deathsWed, 18 Sep 2013 09:50:00 +0200.

In the first ruling of its kind in Japan, a court has ordered a kindergarten to pay almost $2 million to the parents of four of five children who were killed after staff put them on a bus that drove straight into the path of an oncoming tsu
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RK-Vizepräsident Schmoll erschüttertWed, 18 Sep 2013 09:45:00 +0200.

"In der Geschichte des Roten Kreuzes hat es so etwas noch nicht gegeben", sagte RK-Vizepräsident für Niederösterreich, Josef Schmoll, im Gespräch mit der APA über den Einsatz in Annaberg, wo ein Sanitäter sowie drei Polizisten bei einem Ein
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Under-nutrition among kids in UP alarmingWed, 18 Sep 2013 08:33:00 +0200.

the annual tragedy of infant mortality equates the casualties that Hiroshima-Nagasaki atomic bomb explosions or the Indian Ocean tsunami claimed.
Evacúan de Acapulco a turistas por tormentas que dejaron decenas de mu ... Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:13:00 +0200.

Vuelos comerciales y militares empezaron a evacuar este martes a los miles de turistas varados en el turístico Acapulco por las fuertes tormentas que azotan a México, donde hubo decenas de muertos por la inusual combinación de dos ciclones
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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),