M 5.5 in Mexico on 11 Apr 2018 07:30 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 1140006
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 41.43 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.7735 , -94.7596
Event Date: 11 Apr 2018 07:30 UTC
11 Apr 2018 01:30 Local
Exposed Population: 460000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2018 07:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000dxxe Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),