M 7.4 in Mexico on 18 Apr 2014 14:27 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 1030047
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.4M
Depth: 52 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.6 , -100.9
Event Date: 18 Apr 2014 14:27 UTC
18 Apr 2014 09:27 Local
Exposed Population:
560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2014 17:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
USGS 0 0.3 0.2
pt14108001 Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.26m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

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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 (81), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),