M 5 in Mexico on 17 Jul 2026 22:13 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 1552501
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.2237 , -92.9584
Event Date: 17 Jul 2026 22:13 UTC
17 Jul 2026 16:13 Local
Exposed Population:
860 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 17 Jul 2026 22:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000t1hd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),