Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 21 Apr 2024 19:05 UTC

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M 5.4 in Mexico on 21 Apr 2024 19:05 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 1425205
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	18.2141 , -105.6283
Event Date:	21 Apr 2024 19:05 UTC 21 Apr 2024 12:05 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at:	21 Apr 2024 19:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Mexico)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000mdpx	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Mapastepec , a town with 18,000 inhabitants in Mexico , in 60 km (37 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. M

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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),

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