M 4.8 in Mexico on 20 Apr 2014 12:40 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 1030224
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 43.55 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.7785 , -101.1996
Event Date: 20 Apr 2014 12:40 UTC
20 Apr 2014 07:40 Local
Exposed Population:
522565 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2014 12:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Nicaragua: Nicaragua: Earthquake Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF .. 4/22/2014 3:29:00 AM.

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Mexico earthquake shakes Acapulco, surrounding area 4/21/2014 6:02:00 PM.

The Christian Science Monitor, 4/18/14 A powerful earthquake shook Mexico on Friday, damaging more than 100 homes in the southwestern state of Guerrero and opening cracks in some buildings but there were no reports of deaths. Striking close
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),