M 4.8 in Mexico on 21 Sep 2017 11:44 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 1122000
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 100.11 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.7805 , -93.2903
Event Date: 21 Sep 2017 11:44 UTC
21 Sep 2017 06:44 Local
Exposed Population:
730000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2017 12:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000asex Scaled population (vector) 5.9  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 532 | About casualties: 33 | Last hour: 0

Outside quake stricken Mexico City, most kids going back to schoolMon, 25 Sep 2017 11:40:00 +0200.

By Lizbeth Diaz and Ana Isabel Martinez. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Most schools in Mexico City remained closed on Monday after last week's deadly earthquake, but children outside the capital were set to return to their classrooms, although af
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Searchers dig as Mexico City reopens just 1% of schoolsMon, 25 Sep 2017 11:31:00 +0200.

A Mexican soldier guides his rescue dog on a felled office building brought down by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) MEXICO CITY (AP) — Search tea
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Outside quake stricken Mexico City, most kids going back to schoolMon, 25 Sep 2017 11:26:00 +0200.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Most schools in Mexico City remained closed on Monday after last week’s deadly earthquake, but children outside the capital were set to return to their classrooms, although aftershocks were still jolting the country.
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Cifra de muertos por terremoto en México aumenta a 319Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:25:00 +0200.

La cifra de muertos sigue aumentando por el fuerte terremoto ocurrido en México el pasado martes hasta llegar este domingo a 319, mientras se reducen las esperanzas de encontrar a sobrevivientes entre los escombros de los edificios colapsad
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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),