M 5.6 in Mexico on 15 Mar 2025 03:19 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 1472396
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 63.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.2871 , -97.44
Event Date: 15 Mar 2025 03:19 UTC
14 Mar 2025 21:19 Local
Exposed Population: 2 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 15 Mar 2025 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pyyq Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),