M 5 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 20 Sep 2017 14:42 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 1121931
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9346 , -114.1207
Event Date: 20 Sep 2017 14:42 UTC
20 Sep 2017 06:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2017 15:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000arvu 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: 2053 | About casualties: 201 | Last hour: 0

México no termina de componerse luego de tres terremotos en 15 díasSun, 24 Sep 2017 14:41:00 +0200.

Después de los efectos devastadores de los movimientos telúricos del 7 y el 19 de septiembre, la población tanto de la capital como de los estados del sur del país vive con los nervios de punta y el oído aguzado para detectar al primer segu
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2 new quakes shake southern Mexico, already coping with disastersSun, 24 Sep 2017 14:40:00 +0200.

By Jason Hanna, CNN. (CNN) -- Two more earthquakes shook southern Mexico on Saturday, further rattling a country still coming to grips with the devastation from stronger temblors earlier this month. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake Saturday morni
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Abejas lo atacan durante un sismo y lo matanSun, 24 Sep 2017 14:39:00 +0200.

El sismo de 6,1 registrado la mañana de este sábado tiró un panal de abejas, las que atacaron a un hombre de 73 años hasta causarle la muerte en el estado sureño de Oaxaca, informaron las autoridades y familiares. Juan Toledo murió en su ca
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2 new quakes shake southern Mexico, already coping with disastersSun, 24 Sep 2017 14:23:00 +0200.

By Jason Hanna, CNN. (CNN) -- Two more earthquakes shook southern Mexico on Saturday, further rattling a country still coming to grips with the devastation from stronger temblors earlier this month. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake Saturday morni
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),