M 6.6 in Mexico on 17 Dec 2015 19:49 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 1076139
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 93.72 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.8771 , -93.4642
Event Date: 17 Dec 2015 19:49 UTC
17 Dec 2015 13:49 Local
Exposed Population:
740000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2015 22:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.1 -0.1
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

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),