M 4.8 in Mexico on 18 Oct 2016 13:08 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 1095967
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 22.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.6687 , -99.7893
Event Date: 18 Oct 2016 13:08 UTC
18 Oct 2016 08:08 Local
Exposed Population:
1278475 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2016 16:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007f1u 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: 941 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

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LE MONDE EN BREF DU SAMEDI 22 OCTOBRESat, 22 Oct 2016 10:09:00 +0200.

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¿Por qué deben estar las mujeres en el centro de la respuesta humanita ... Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:52:00 +0200.

MADRID, 22 Oct. (Por Anthony Ngororano, representante de ONU Mujeres en Haití) - Cuando sobrevolababa la localidad costera de Jeremie, en el sur de Haití, tenía debajo una devastación sobrecogedora. Árboles reducidos a astillas, tierras de
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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),