M 5.8 in Mexico on 09 Feb 2018 14:05 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 1133978
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.8886 , -104.775
Event Date: 09 Feb 2018 14:05 UTC
09 Feb 2018 07:05 Local
Exposed Population: 440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Feb 2018 14:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000czig Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 522 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 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),