M 5 in Mexico on 01 Mar 2016 12:17 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 1081668
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.6669 , -93.1779
Event Date: 01 Mar 2016 12:17 UTC
01 Mar 2016 06:17 Local
Exposed Population:
420780 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2016 12:45 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

Articles: 451 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Hundreds of people who were forced to evacuate their homes after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster gathered on a beach here March 5 with supporters to remember the day that transformed their lives. The ev
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Dorfen – Die nach dem schweren Erdbeben im Himalaya des ...Sat, 05 Mar 2016 11:02:00 +0100.

dpa.de berichtet: Jakarta (dpa) - Auf den Mentawai-Inseln vor Indonesien hat es nach dem starken Erdbeben vom Mittwoch mindestens zwei größere Nachbeben gegeben . Nachbeben erschüttern Inseln vor Indonesien. Wie schon am Vortag seien jedoch
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زلزال يهز #جزيرة سومطرة الإندونيسيةSat, 05 Mar 2016 10:23:00 +0100.

كوالالمبور/ ضرب زلزال بلغت قوته 3 .5 درجات على مقياس ريختر جنوب غربي جزيرة سومطرة في إندونيسيا اليوم. وأوضحت إدارة الأرصاد الجوية الماليزية أن مركز الزلزال كان على بعد 604 كيلومترات من جنوب غربي منطقة (سيبيروت) في إندونيسيا، و110,1 كيلومترا
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Fukushima - 05.03.2016 Fukushima: Die Zeit heilt nicht alle Wunden Fün ... Sat, 05 Mar 2016 10:05:00 +0100.

Fukushima: Die Zeit heilt nicht alle Wunden Die Verzweiflung der Überlebenden war groß: Am 11. März 2011 hatte ein Tsunami im Nordosten Japans Zerstörungen von unvorstellbarem Ausmaß angerichtet. Etwa 16 000 Menschen starben. Das Bild vom
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),