M 4.9 in Mexico on 02 Aug 2013 09:29 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 1001158
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 89.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.5452 , -94.4836
Event Date: 02 Aug 2013 09:29 UTC
02 Aug 2013 04:29 Local
Exposed Population:
793502 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2013 09:52 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

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Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain.
Japon : situation d'"urgence" à Fukushima 8/6/2013 8:34:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),