M 5.2 in Mexico on 13 Sep 2017 02:01 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 1121321
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 45.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.2563 , -94.3979
Event Date: 13 Sep 2017 02:01 UTC
12 Sep 2017 20:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Sep 2017 02:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000al86 Scaled population (vector) 1.17  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 0.92  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),