M 4.5 in Mexico on 15 Aug 2016 17:06 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 1091918
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.5293 , -114.347
Event Date: 15 Aug 2016 17:06 UTC
15 Aug 2016 10:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 37484 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2016 17:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dxr Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 656 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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