M 4.6 in Mexico on 18 Dec 2021 08:32 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 1302279
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 27.14 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.8372 , -113.8398
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 08:32 UTC
18 Dec 2021 00:32 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 08:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gddc Scaled population (vector) 3.43  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),