M 4.8 in Mexico from 20 Mar 2017 22:41 UTC to 22:41

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1108270
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.2267 , -94.0896
Event Date: 20 Mar 2017 22:41 UTC
20 Mar 2017 16:41 Local
Exposed Population:
About 34000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2017 23:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008tet Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 472 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

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Hawke's Bay communities urged to join tsumani drillFri, 24 Mar 2017 19:46:00 +0100.

Hawke's Bay Civil Defence authorities are urging people in coastal communities to join in Sunday's "tsunami hikoi". The community event is a chance for people in Te Awanga, Haumoana and Clifton to practise their tsunami evacuation routes. V
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),