M 4.9 in Mexico on 14 Feb 2018 08:35 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 1134524
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 25.33 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.6827 , -95.4798
Event Date: 14 Feb 2018 08:35 UTC
14 Feb 2018 02:35 Local
Exposed Population:
400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2018 08:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d1wu Scaled population (vector) 5.17  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Quake warning system could give one minute to prepare 2/16/2018 6:51:00 PM.

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SM joins nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill 2/16/2018 5:25:00 PM.

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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),