M 6.2 in Mexico on 12 Jan 2025 08:32 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 1461890
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 34 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.5249 , -103.3158
Event Date: 12 Jan 2025 08:32 UTC
12 Jan 2025 02:32 Local
Exposed Population: 3 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2025 11:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000pjig Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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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 (92), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),