M 5.7 in Mexico on 13 Dec 2021 07:03 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 1301278
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 180.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.5517 , -92.0435
Event Date: 13 Dec 2021 07:03 UTC
13 Dec 2021 01:03 Local
Exposed Population: 4.9 million in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2021 07:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; Mexico= 4.4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gbt6 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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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),