M 5.1 in Mexico on 29 Apr 2024 23:42 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 1426588
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 142.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.1995 , -93.2528
Event Date: 29 Apr 2024 23:42 UTC
29 Apr 2024 17:42 Local
Exposed Population:
210 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2024 23:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mv2u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 45 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 1

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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),