M 6.3 in Mexico on 19 Jan 2018 16:17 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 1131300
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.6795 , -111.107
Event Date: 19 Jan 2018 16:17 UTC
19 Jan 2018 09:17 Local
Exposed Population: About 24000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2018 18:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000cl83 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0.51m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.09m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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