M 4.5 in Mexico on 07 May 2024 11:58 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 1427724
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 68.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.5597 , -100.6749
Event Date: 07 May 2024 11:58 UTC
07 May 2024 05:58 Local
Exposed Population:
100 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 07 May 2024 12:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwy2 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.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

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Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Mexico: 26 km al SUR de ZIHUATANEJO, GR ... 2024-05-10T13:45+0200.

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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),