M 4.9 in Mexico on 23 Sep 2017 14:31 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 1122166
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.6905 , -94.8831
Event Date: 23 Sep 2017 14:31 UTC
23 Sep 2017 09:31 Local
Exposed Population:
740000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2017 14:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000atkr Scaled population (vector) 6.04  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 413 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

Le Tonnerre à Saint-Martin : "Les soldats participent à l'énorme solid ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:21:00 +0200.

Le Tonnerre a mouillé au large de l'île de Saint-Martin samedi dernier. Le deuxième plus grand navire de la Marine nationale a débarqué plus d'une centaine de véhicules, 1200 tonnes de frêt de matériel ainsi que 528 militaires. Sa mission :
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Felipe VI: "España siempre está cerca de México y más en estos momento ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:13:00 +0200.

El Rey ha aprovechado hoy la entrega del Premio Enrique V. Iglesias al empresario hispano-mexicano Plácido Arango para expresar su solidaridad, apoyo y cariño a todos los mexicanos por el reciente terremoto, antes de proclamar: "España siem
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Felipe VI: "España siempre está cerca de México y más en estos momento ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:11:00 +0200.

Madrid, 27 sep (EFE).- El Rey ha aprovechado hoy la entrega del Premio Enrique V. Iglesias al empresario hispano-mexicano Plácido Arango para expresar su solidaridad, apoyo y cariño a todos los mexicanos por el reciente terremoto, antes de
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1.0K Terremoto oceano Pacifico, scossa del 6.4 a largo delle isole Fij ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:01:00 +0200.

ROMA – Un violento terremoto di magnitudo 6.4 è stato registrato nell’oceano Pacifico al largo delle isole di Tonga alle 17,20 del 26 settembre ora locale, le 6,20 del mattino in Italia. Il sisma ha avuto ipocentro a 98 chilometri di profon
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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),