M 6.6 in Mexico on 21 Jan 2016 18:06 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 1078990
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.8414 , -106.9536
Event Date: 21 Jan 2016 18:06 UTC
21 Jan 2016 11:06 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2016 18:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.16m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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