M 5.2 in Mexico on 22 Feb 2021 15:21 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 1257016
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 19.79 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.4172 , -93.079
Event Date: 22 Feb 2021 15:21 UTC
22 Feb 2021 09:21 Local
Exposed Population:
260000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Feb 2021 16:14 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
us6000dk3a Scaled population (vector) 4.43  
  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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),