M 5.9 in Mexico on 16 Oct 2024 19:40 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 1449659
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.4898 , -106.9116
Event Date: 16 Oct 2024 19:40 UTC
16 Oct 2024 12:40 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2024 20:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nz5z Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),