M 5.1 in Mexico on 28 Mar 2016 00:03 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 1083266
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.2274 , -114.2417
Event Date: 28 Mar 2016 00:03 UTC
27 Mar 2016 17:03 Local
Exposed Population:
About 15487 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2016 23:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 358 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Construirán muro de hielo para evitar escape de agua radiactiva de Fuk ... Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:39:00 +0200.

La operadora de la central nuclear de Fukushima intentará evitar que el agua radiactiva llegue al océano pacífico con la construcción de un muro de hielo subterráneo. La Autoridad de Regulación Nuclear de Japón informó en su página web que
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Embalming helps families say good-byeThu, 31 Mar 2016 23:38:00 +0200.

In a funeral company’s operating room, Kenichiro Hashizume faces a body bearing wounds from a traffic accident. After performing preservation work, he sews up the wounds and applies makeup. About three hours have passed since he began the p
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Central de Fukushima empieza a congelar el suelo para frenar el agua r ... Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:06:00 +0200.

La compañía Tepco, gestora de la central nuclear de Fukushima, gravemente dañada por un tsunami en 2011, anunció este jueves haber empezado a congelar el suelo de una cavidad subterránea para frenar el escape de agua radiactiva. "Hemos empe
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Sea Levels Could Rise More Than 50 Feet by 2500, Study PredictsThu, 31 Mar 2016 21:59:00 +0200.

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the world, scientists are now predicting a cataclysmic result if global warming rapidly melts the ice in Antarctica and particularly the West Antarctic ice sheet, a remnant of Earth's
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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),