M 4.6 in Mexico on 22 Dec 2021 02:12 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 1302840
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 96.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.9784 , -92.5582
Event Date: 22 Dec 2021 02:12 UTC
21 Dec 2021 20:12 Local
Exposed Population:
2.8 million in 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2021 02:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; Mexico= 4.4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ged2 Scaled population (vector) 6.49  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.19  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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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),