M 4.5 in Mexico on 21 Jan 2018 17:04 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 1131489
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.2705 , -113.5871
Event Date: 21 Jan 2018 17:04 UTC
21 Jan 2018 09:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 9000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2018 17:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cm5c Scaled population (vector) 3.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2640 | About casualties: 44 | Last hour: 0

Warning for Kiwi boaties following US quake 43 minutes ago Civil Defen ... Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:16:00 +0100.

Civil Defence is warning boaties there may be strong currents around New Zealand today following an earthquake in the United States. The 7.9 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Kodiak Island, Alaska, at 12:30am on Tuesday (local time).
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Undersea quake sends Alaskans fleeing from feared tsunamiWed, 24 Jan 2018 00:16:00 +0100.

Abdulai Salam and his daughter Mina at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, wait for the all-clear at Homer High School during a tsunami alert for Homer, Alaska. The city of Homer issued an evacuation order for low-lying areas shortly af
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زلزالان قويان يهزان آلاسكا وجاكرتاWed, 24 Jan 2018 00:14:00 +0100.

هز زلزال عنيف بلغت قوته 7.9 درجات، جنوب شرقي تشينياك في آلاسكا، في الساعات الأولى من صباح أمس، على عمق عشرة كيلومترات، حسب ما أفادت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأميركية. وذكر مركز التحذير من أمواج المد العاتية (تسونامي) في الولايات المتحدة أن تحذ
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Undersea quake sends Alaskans fleeing from feared tsunamiWed, 24 Jan 2018 00:13:00 +0100.

Associated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A powerful undersea earthquake sent Alaskans fumbling for suitcases and racing to evacuation centers in the middle of the night after a cellphone alert warned a tsunami could hit communities along
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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.
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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),