Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 21 Sep 2017 20:22 UTC

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M 4.8 in Mexico on 21 Sep 2017 20:22 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 1122025
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	65.44 Km
Lat/Lon:	15.2536 , -93.8962
Event Date:	21 Sep 2017 20:22 UTC 21 Sep 2017 14:22 Local
Exposed Population:	140000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Sep 2017 23:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000ass7	Scaled population (vector)	4.21
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	-1
	INFORM_normalised	0.92

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 479 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

Niños mexicanos, ante el reto de superar el trauma por el terremotoMon, 25 Sep 2017 20:09:00 +0200.

Aunque el Fondo de Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef) está a favor del pronto regreso a clase tras la tragedia, su representante en México, Christian Skoog, admite que los menores tendrán "miedo a revivir" lo ocurrido el martes en su

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Terror en México: aseguran que apareció un fantasma en el colegio derr ... Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:59:00 +0200.

14:52 | Las imágenes se viralizaron luego de ser publicadas en Facebook. El terremoto que azotó a México la semana pasada dejó cientos de historias de solidaridad, dolor e incluso, algunos casos que parecen paranormales. Ahora, apareció un

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Entre flores, veladoras y oraciones despiden a víctimasMon, 25 Sep 2017 19:58:00 +0200.

Ciudad de México.- Luego del devastador terremoto de 7,1 grados que ha dejado más de 300 muertos en México, los homenajes y sepelios de las víctimas ocurren entre flores y veladoras en la capital, donde palidecen las esperanzas de encontrar

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Sismo despertaría ‘odio del pueblo’ hacia autoridadMon, 25 Sep 2017 19:58:00 +0200.

Ciudad de México.- La Iglesia católica mexicana recordó que si el Gobierno no atiende con celeridad las necesidades de la ciudadanía tras el potente terremoto del 19 de septiembre, que suma ya 324 muertos, se despertará “el odio del pueblo”

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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