M 5.7 in Mexico on 23 Sep 2021 16:47 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 1286922
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0032 , -107.9359
Event Date: 23 Sep 2021 16:47 UTC
23 Sep 2021 09:47 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Sep 2021 16:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fdty Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),