M 4.9 in Mexico on 23 Feb 2021 09:30 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 1257116
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 47.59 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.5835 , -94.6837
Event Date: 23 Feb 2021 09:30 UTC
23 Feb 2021 03:30 Local
Exposed Population:
230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2021 09:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dkcp Scaled population (vector) 4.37  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),