M 5.2 in Mexico on 17 Sep 2020 01:13 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 1235674
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 95.98 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.3093 , -92.2849
Event Date: 17 Sep 2020 01:13 UTC
16 Sep 2020 20:13 Local
Exposed Population:
4180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2020 23:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; Mexico= 4.4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bp7s Scaled population (vector) 6.65  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.19  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 66 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Mexican school owner convicted over quake deathsMon, 21 Sep 2020 00:49:00 +0200.

By AFP Sep 18, 2020 in World A Mexican court has found the owner of a school that collapsed in a 2017 earthquake guilty of culpable homicide over the deaths of 19 children and seven adults. Prosecutors said they would seek a prison sentenc
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¿Cuál ha sido el sismo más devastador en la historia de México?Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:20:00 +0200.

Después del terremoto, se reportó un tsunami con olas de más 20 metros de alto y que penetraron más de 8 kilómetros en la costa del Pacífico OAXACA.- A tres años del terremoto ocurrido el 19 de septiembre de 2017 en la Ciudad de México, el
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Commemorative activity held to mourn for victims during 2017 earthquak ... Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:24:00 +0200.

. A woman takes part in a commemorative activity to mourn for victims during the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 19, 2020. On Sept. 19, 2017, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck central and southern Mexico, killing 369 people a
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Climate change has inflicted more damage on the U.S. military than Ira ... Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:05:00 +0200.

In a few hours of extraordinary violence on Oct. 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle was utterly devastated, with 95 percent of its buildings severely damaged or destroyed . At that time, Tyndall served as the home bas
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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),