M 5 in Mexico on 14 Nov 2024 09:16 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 1453373
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 15.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.2867 , -98.5612
Event Date: 14 Nov 2024 09:16 UTC
14 Nov 2024 03:16 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2024 09:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nrp3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),