M 4.7 in Mexico on 11 Apr 2016 09:51 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 1084121
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 75.85 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.0988 , -96.1844
Event Date: 11 Apr 2016 09:51 UTC
11 Apr 2016 04:51 Local
Exposed Population:
660323 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2016 11:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),