M 4.5 in Mexico on 27 Jul 2017 22:56 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 1118041
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 107.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.4564 , -94.5201
Event Date: 27 Jul 2017 22:56 UTC
27 Jul 2017 17:56 Local
Exposed Population:
840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2017 23:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000a20c Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),