M 4.6 in Mexico on 16 Feb 2019 09:29 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 1170966
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.4382 , -102.8196
Event Date: 16 Feb 2019 09:29 UTC
16 Feb 2019 02:29 Local
Exposed Population:
210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 09:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jit8 Scaled population (vector) 4.38  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 124 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

UNAM offers information on natural phenomena through mobile applicatio ... Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:25:00 +0100.

Mexico, Feb. 18 (Notimex) .- In order to offer the population scientific information on natural phenomena, experts from the Institute of Geophysics and the General Directorate of Computing and Information and Communication Technologies of t
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San Andreas Fault: Clock Ticking For Major EarthquakeTue, 12 Feb 2019 11:21:00 +0100.

California earthquakes are a geologic inevitability. The state straddles the North American and Pacific tectonic plates and is crisscrossed by the San Andreas and other active fault systems. The magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck off Alas
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MEXICO TECHNOLOGY - Mexican students build robot for earthquake search ... Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:40:00 +0100.

Mexican university students have created a spider-like robot that can find people trapped in rubble following an earthquake or other natural disaster, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) said. "Students created the Arachnid Robot for S
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Pascal Ustin Dubuisson, el haitiano que recorrió 10 países y sobrevivi ... Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:19:00 +0100.

El joven haitiano Pascal Ustin Dubuisson cruzó 10 países por carretera, en lancha y caminando por la selva. Cuidándose de ladrones, animales salvajes, polleros desleales y fuerzas de seguridad que en las revisiones suelen quedarse con el di
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),