M 5.8 in Oaxaca, Mexico on 05 Jan 2020 04:40 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 1200741
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 97.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.4222 , -94.3471
Event Date: 05 Jan 2020 04:40 UTC
04 Jan 2020 22:40 Local
Exposed Population: 850000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2020 04:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006uwq Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Strong earthquake hits southeast Mexico, causing damageSun, 05 Jan 2020 10:15:00 +0100.

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Mexico on Saturday night, with tremors felt as far away as Mexico City and neighboring countries, seismologists and residents say. Some damage was reported but there were no reports of casu
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Quake rattles southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, no damagesSun, 05 Jan 2020 09:01:00 +0100.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca late on Saturday, near to the Pacific coastline and the neighboring state of Chiapas, prompting security protocols to be activated. Oaxaca’s civil prote
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Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico; no damages reported so farSun, 05 Jan 2020 08:13:00 +0100.

An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude was reported near Mexico's Oaxaca state late on Saturday. The quake rattled 38 kilometres to the southeast of Union Hidalgo, along the Pacific coastline of Oaxaca state. According to a tweet by the Governor of
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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake registered in Oaxaca, MexicoSun, 05 Jan 2020 07:38:00 +0100.

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook southern Mexico on Saturday night; the authorities were not immediately able to estimate the number of casualties or extent of damage, reports citing Sputnik. The epicentre was located at a depth of 10 km,
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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),