Overall Green Earthquake in Mexico on 09 Jul 2021 21:07 UTC

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M 4.8 in Mexico on 09 Jul 2021 21:07 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 1276559
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	66.69 Km
Lat/Lon:	17.0776 , -96.0877
Event Date:	09 Jul 2021 21:07 UTC 09 Jul 2021 16:07 Local
Exposed Population:	1600000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Jul 2021 21:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000etw2	Scaled population (vector)	6.11
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	-1
	INFORM_normalised	0.92

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Latest media headlines

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