M 6.5 in Mexico on 11 Apr 2012 22:55 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 115992
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.2721 , -102.732
Event Date: 11 Apr 2012 22:55 UTC
11 Apr 2012 17:55 Local
Exposed Population:
426826 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2012 00:17 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
usc00090z0 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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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),