M 4.8 in Mexico on 16 Dec 2021 00:59 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 1301896
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 101.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.3193 , -92.8737
Event Date: 16 Dec 2021 00:59 UTC
15 Dec 2021 18:59 Local
Exposed Population:
1.6 million in 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2021 01:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Guatemala= 5.5; Mexico= 4.4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gclp Scaled population (vector) 6.12  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.19  
  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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),