M 4.7 in Mexico on 16 May 2017 11:10 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 1113120
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.2759 , -105.1137
Event Date: 16 May 2017 11:10 UTC
16 May 2017 04:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2017 11:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008spm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 245 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Japan moves to allow emperor to retireSat, 20 May 2017 10:30:00 +0200.

TOKYO -- Ten months after Japan's octogenarian emperor indicated he wanted to give up the throne while he was still alive, the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved special legislation Friday that would allow him to abdicate. The bi
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Un gran evento volcánico ocurrido en Tenerife hace 170.000 años, prota ... Sat, 20 May 2017 10:20:00 +0200.

Investigadores del Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan) y del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Tenerife, en colaboración con científicos del Laboratorio de Magmas y Volcanes de Clermont-Ferrand en Francia, han publicado recientement
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Uttarakhand landslides: 1000-1500 people still trapped; government iss ... Sat, 20 May 2017 10:14:00 +0200.

The Uttarakhand government on Saturday issued tourist helplines for the Char Dham pilgrims. The numbers are: 0135-2559898 ,2552626, 2552627,2552628 and 1364. Meanwhile, the secretary of Disaster Management of Uttarakhand told ANI that they
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Un gran evento volcánico ocurrido en Tenerife hace 170.000 años, prota ... Sat, 20 May 2017 10:12:00 +0200.

Este evento fue ocasionado por un deslizamiento gravitacional masivo del flanco norte del Edificio Cañadas, cuyos depósitos de avalancha rocosa se extendieron sobre el fondo marino hasta 80 kilómetros de distancia de la costa, y la última g
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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),