M 4.5 in Mexico on 13 Sep 2017 05:09 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 1121335
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 72.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.3914 , -93.453
Event Date: 13 Sep 2017 05:09 UTC
13 Sep 2017 00:09 Local
Exposed Population:
450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Sep 2017 05:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000ala9 Scaled population (vector) 5.26  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 972 | About casualties: 57 | Last hour: 0

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Otro sismo remece Oaxaca, pero música busca consolar...Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:42:00 +0200.

SIGUEN LOS SUSTOS Otro sismo remece Oaxaca, pero música busca consolarlos Lila Downs y Susana Harp encabezarán un concierto este domingo a beneficio de los afectados. REDACCIÓN 16/09/2017 09:10 p.m. En medio de la desgracia, su gente no pi
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Norma weakens as it heads for Mexican resortSun, 17 Sep 2017 04:33:00 +0200.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Norma weakened to tropical storm strength Saturday (Sept 16) as it moved in the direction of Mexico's Baja California coastline in the Pacific, the US National Hurricane Centre. The storm, which had grown to hurricane str
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México festeja su Independencia una semana después del terremotoSun, 17 Sep 2017 04:26:00 +0200.

MÉXICO | México festejó este viernes el 207º aniversario de la Independencia, una semana después de un terremoto que dejó un centenar de muertos en los estados sureños de Guerrero y Oaxaca. "¡Viva la solidaridad de los mexicanos con Chiapas
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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),