M 5.1 in Mexico on 29 Sep 2016 08:56 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 1094913
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.8565 , -98.3336
Event Date: 29 Sep 2016 08:56 UTC
29 Sep 2016 01:56 Local
Exposed Population:
336593 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2016 09:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006trl 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: 587 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Hurricane Matthew's winds increase to 145 mph as…Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:22:00 +0200.

“At a minimum, it will be breezy with dangerous rip current at the beaches, along with the possibility of significant beach erosion,” according to a National Weather Service bulletin issued Sunday. The storm is predicted to be southeast of
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Picknick am Rande der Sperrzone. Teil 2. FukushimaMon, 03 Oct 2016 05:11:00 +0200.

Ferner sprach Miura darüber, wie die Entseuchung verläuft und welche Gefahren in Fukushima künftig möglich wären: Die Situation in Fukushima-1 wird in den Medien immer seltener erwähnt, es sei denn es geht um regionale Medien. Dabei wird st
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قرية ذي عين بمنطقة الباحة توحي برحلة ضياع د. محمد حامد الغامديMon, 03 Oct 2016 02:19:00 +0200.

¿¿ نقلتني طريق عقبة الباحة إلى قرية ذي عين.. بمحافظة المخواة التهامية.. مكانها أسفل العقبة.. أشبه بموقع لحراسة حدود التقاء سهول تهامة مع قاعدة الجبال السراة الشاهقة.. شعرت بحرارة الجو.. قادم من قمّة الجبال بمناخ مختلف.. استرسلت في التفكير و
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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),