M 4.6 in Mexico on 16 Jan 2021 17:06 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 1251865
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 34.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.7704 , -95.0556
Event Date: 16 Jan 2021 17:06 UTC
16 Jan 2021 11:06 Local
Exposed Population:
450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2021 17:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d0p2 Scaled population (vector) 5.42  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

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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),