M 5.4 in Mexico on 19 Jun 2021 18:57 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 1273808
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 217.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.0195 , -92.3949
Event Date: 19 Jun 2021 18:57 UTC
19 Jun 2021 13:57 Local
Exposed Population:
2620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jun 2021 19:16 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
us7000eegn Scaled population (vector) 6.23  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.19  
  INFORM_normalised 1.05  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 71 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Mexico: Magnitude-4.8 earthquake occurs occurs in Oaxaca State, June 2 ... Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:33:00 +0200.

Event. A magnitude-4.8 earthquake occurred in the state of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, at around 09:55 June 22. The epicenter was about 74 km (46 miles) southwest of the city of Oaxaca. The tremor occurred at a depth of approximately 55 km (34
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Millions take part in Mexico City earthquake drill ReutersTue, 22 Jun 2021 12:02:00 +0200.

Millions of residents of Mexico City evacuated homes and buildings for an emergency earthquake drill on Monday.
A magnitude 5 earthquake is registered in ChiapasTue, 22 Jun 2021 07:12:00 +0200.

MEXICO CITY. The National Seismological Service (SSN) reported that on Monday night an earthquake of magnitude 5 was registered in the state of Chiapas. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 20 kilometers west of Huixtla at 9:25 p.m.
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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),