M 5.5 in Mexico on 17 Mar 2025 09:50 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 1472730
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.58 , -108.9472
Event Date: 17 Mar 2025 09:50 UTC
17 Mar 2025 02:50 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2025 10:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pzam 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),