M 5 in Mexico on 18 Mar 2017 10:37 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 1108107
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 99.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.1774 , -95.2029
Event Date: 18 Mar 2017 10:37 UTC
18 Mar 2017 04:37 Local
Exposed Population:
1030000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2017 11:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
us20008sze Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 497 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

03/22 16:21 No Taiwanese nationals injured in Bali earthquakeWed, 22 Mar 2017 10:02:00 +0100.

Jakarta, March 22 (CNA) There have been no reports of Taiwanese nationals injured in the wake of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake that jolted Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday morning, Taiwan's representative office in Surabaya said. The earthquake, w
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ANIMALE PE CALE DE DISPARIȚIE Rinocerul de Java, extrem de vulnerabil ... Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:56:00 +0100.

6 afişări Mediu Rinocerii de Java (Rhinoceros sondaicus) sunt o specie aflată în pericol critic de dispariție, fiind cea mai amenințată dintre cele cinci specii de rinocer, cu numai 60 de exemplare recenzate într-o singură zonă protejată di
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Trump to visit ‘hellhole’ Brussels on 25 MayWed, 22 Mar 2017 09:25:00 +0100.

US President Donald Trump, who last January called the Belgian capital a “hellhole”, will attend a summit of leaders of NATO nations on 25 May in Brussels, the White House said yesterday (21 March). Trump’s visit will give him an opportunit
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México reúne al mundo en materia de riesgo de desastresWed, 22 Mar 2017 09:15:00 +0100.

22 de Marzo de 2017. Por Robert Glasser* y Luis Felipe Puente** Han pasado dos años desde la adopción del Marco de Acción de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, el cual dio inicio a uno de los procesos más ambiciosos en la his
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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),