M 4.5 in Mexico on 18 Dec 2017 10:41 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 1128974
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 19.64 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.8193 , -94.8979
Event Date: 18 Dec 2017 10:41 UTC
18 Dec 2017 04:41 Local
Exposed Population:
770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2017 13:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c5jv Scaled population (vector) 6.05  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 285 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

La Farn : vers une sûreté nucléaire unique au mondeMon, 18 Dec 2017 18:02:00 +0100.

Le nucléaire suscite de nombreuses peurs dans un climat qui s’est particulièrement tendu depuis plusieurs années. La catastrophe de Fukushima et les attentats perpétrés en France depuis 2012 constituent de sérieuses menaces à prendre en com
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El mexicano Cruz-Atienza y la niña Emily Whitehead, entre los "10" de ... Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:45:00 +0100.

Londres, 18 dic (EFE).- La revista británica Nature publicó hoy la lista de diez personalidades que marcaron la diferencia en el terreno científico durante 2017, en la que figura el geofísico mexicano Víctor Cruz-Atienza o la niña Emily Whi
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El mexicano Cruz-Atienza y la niña Emily Whitehead, entre los "10" de ... Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:38:00 +0100.

La revista británica Nature publicó hoy la lista de diez personalidades que marcaron la diferencia en el terreno científico durante 2017, en la que figura el geofísico mexicano Víctor Cruz-Atienza o la niña Emily Whitehead, la primera en re
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Pangandaran residents relive 2006 nightmareMon, 18 Dec 2017 16:05:00 +0100.

PREMIUM Late on Friday, residents of Pangandaran in West Java had to relive the catastrophe of 2006, when a 6.8-magnitude earthquake caused a tsunami and killed at least 668 people. Friday’s quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale, and, hav
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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),