M 5.7 in Mexico on 04 May 2026 15:19 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 1538965
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 22.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.6223 , -97.9846
Event Date: 04 May 2026 15:19 UTC
04 May 2026 09:19 Local
Exposed Population: 80 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 04 May 2026 15:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000si51 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted Oaxaca, Mexico on Monday at 15:19 GMT, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 16
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),