M 4.5 in Mexico on 18 Mar 2023 04:31 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 1365456
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.2244 , -108.6706
Event Date: 18 Mar 2023 04:31 UTC
17 Mar 2023 21:31 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2023 04:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jl0w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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),