M 4.6 in Mexico on 03 Aug 2016 12:01 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 1091196
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 52.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.0813 , -95.1048
Event Date: 03 Aug 2016 12:01 UTC
03 Aug 2016 07:01 Local
Exposed Population:
548356 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2016 12:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100069pu 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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Latest media headlines

Six people have died in landslides in the eastern Mexican ... 8/7/2016 11:36:00 AM.

msnbc.msn.com meldet: The landslides were caused by rainfall from remnants of now-downgraded Tropical Storm Earl, which hit Belize as a hurricane before moving inland . Six Dead in Mexico as Remnants of Earl Trigger Landslides. weiterlesen
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NOAA Heavy rains, landslides leave 6 dead in Mexico 8/7/2016 11:14:00 AM.

(CNN) - At least six people died when heavy rains triggered landslides that buried homes and people in eastern Mexico, authorities said. Flash floods hit Veracruz state Saturday, a result of the now-downgraded tropical depression Earl, loca
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Heavy rains, landslides leave 6 dead in Mexico 8/7/2016 11:08:00 AM.

Flash floods hit Veracruz state Saturday, a result of the now-downgraded tropical depression Earl, local officials said in a statement. Before becoming a tropical storm and now a tropical depression, it was Hurricane Earl. "The remnants of
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NOAA Heavy rains, landslides leave 6 dead in Mexico 8/7/2016 11:07:00 AM.

(CNN) - At least six people died when heavy rains triggered landslides that buried homes and people in eastern Mexico, authorities said. Flash floods hit Veracruz state Saturday, a result of the now-downgraded tropical depression Earl, loca
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),