M 4.7 in Mexico on 24 Oct 2020 10:11 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 1240730
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.9108 , -110.3777
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 10:11 UTC
24 Oct 2020 03:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 18000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 10:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccj8 Scaled population (vector) 3.27  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 96 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

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Scientists rediscover tectonic plate lost for 60 million yearsSat, 24 Oct 2020 17:51:00 +0200.

Tectonic plates are massive, and it’s hard to imagine one being lost for 60 million years, but that is the case. Researchers from the University of Houston have discovered a lost tectonic plate that spent 60 million years hidden under the P
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Despite active hurricane season, Louisiana's coastal restoration proje ... Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:07:00 +0200.

Restoration projects along Louisiana’s coastline were mostly spared by the six different hurricanes that have threatened the state so far this year, including Category 4 Laura and Category 2 Delta, which slammed into the southwestern part o
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Tectonic plate ‘lost’ for 60M years found hiding under Pacific OceanFri, 23 Oct 2020 22:29:00 +0200.

TodayHeadline Tectonic plate ‘lost’ for 60M years found hiding under Pacific Ocean —

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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.
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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),