M 4.8 in Mexico on 20 Mar 2017 22:41 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 1108270
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.1277 , -94.0393
Event Date: 20 Mar 2017 22:41 UTC
20 Mar 2017 16:41 Local
Exposed Population:
About 10000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2017 03:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008tet Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),