M 4.8 in Mexico on 05 Dec 2021 17:37 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 1300143
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.0065 , -113.7676
Event Date: 05 Dec 2021 17:37 UTC
05 Dec 2021 09:37 Local
Exposed Population:
7 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2021 18:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g9b3 Scaled population (vector) 2.97  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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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),