M 4.5 in Mexico on 24 Jul 2016 15:20 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 1090560
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 69.67 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.0638 , -97.2043
Event Date: 24 Jul 2016 15:20 UTC
24 Jul 2016 10:20 Local
Exposed Population:
2650606 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2016 18:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006h9q 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 344 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Hong Kong’s women take over average life expectancy lead from JapaneseThu, 28 Jul 2016 14:11:00 +0200.

The women of Hong Kong have taken over the longest average life expectancy title from their Japanese fellows with 87.32 years. Japan-based Kyodo News Agency reported that Japanese women's average life expectancy of 87.05 years was recently
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Northrop's Global Hawk UAS achieves 200,000 flight hoursThu, 28 Jul 2016 13:56:00 +0200.

Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has achieved 200,000 flight hours in support of intelligence gathering for military operations. Nearly 88% of the flight hours were recorded by Global Hawks that are in service w
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Hong Kong women and men enjoy world’s longest life expectancy due to l ... Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200.

Hong Kong’s women and men enjoy the longest life expectancy in the world, according to data released by Japan’s health and welfare ministry on Wednesday. The average lifespan for women in Hong Kong is 87.32 years, and local men on average c
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News24.com | UPDATE: 'Mini Margate Tsunami' turns out to be a weather ... Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:51:00 +0200.

Cape Town - Snow, flooding and even tornadoes! South Africa has seen her fare share of extreme weather this week... But just as we thought we've seen it all, travelller Melanie Swart shared photos to social media on Wednesday morning, 27 Ju
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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),