M 4.6 in Mexico on 09 Dec 2021 15:31 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 1300751
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.0785 , -113.6312
Event Date: 09 Dec 2021 15:31 UTC
09 Dec 2021 07:31 Local
Exposed Population:
7 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2021 16:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gav6 Scaled population (vector) 2.87  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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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),