M 5.1 in Mexico on 22 Jul 2018 12:39 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 1151153
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 136.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.5625 , -94.5082
Event Date: 22 Jul 2018 12:39 UTC
22 Jul 2018 07:39 Local
Exposed Population:
1560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2018 12:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gb6j Scaled population (vector) 6.14  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 234 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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USGS. Heather Navarro A 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook the Ensenada, Mexico, area Wednesday, July 25, 2018, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shook the Ensenada, Mexico, area Wednesday, according to the U.
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Construction supervisor arrested over Mexico earthquake school collaps ... Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:06:00 +0200.

25 July 2018 | By GCR Staff Mexican police have arrested the construction supervisor who oversaw work at a primary school that collapsed in Mexico City in the earthquake in September last year, prosecutors said Sunday. The attorney general’
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En aquel año la dependencia mudó a 1,400 empleados a Morelos, les apoy ... Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:43:00 +0200.

CUERNAVACA.- El terremoto de 8.1 grados de intensidad vulneró los edicios de Caminos y Puentes Federales (Capufe) en la Ciudad de México. Era el 19 de septiembre de 1985; el sismo convertiría a esa dependencia en el primer organismo federal
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Terremoto en México. Detienen a responsable de obra del colegio Rébsam ... Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:17:00 +0200.

. La PGJ informó que el hombre fue aprehendido en Querétaro y trasladado al Reclusorio Varonil Sur en la Ciudad de México. Diez meses después, a través de un oficio de colaboración, el DRO fue detenido en el estado de Querétaro y traslada
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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),