Rapid Impact

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	6.8M
Depth:	24.119 Km
Lat/Lon:	18.3081 , -102.9226
Event Date:	22 Sep 2022 06:16 UTC 22 Sep 2022 01:16 Local
Exposed Population:	About 8000 people in MMI 9 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Source:	NEIC us7000ia36
Inserted at:	22 Sep 2022 06:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0		0
us7000ia36	Scaled population (raster)	2.37	Max wave alert	0.08m
	C1 rapid impact	-0.59	Max wave realtime	0.08m
	C2 rapid impact	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.92

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.

Episode Timeline

ID	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1463401	0	22 Sep 2022 06:16	6.7M, 10km	6.75	431 (in MMI>=VII)	0m (at 00:00)	00:08	GEOFON
1463403	0.3	22 Sep 2022 06:16	7M, 61.3km	7.3	70 thousand (in MMI>=VII)	0.1m (at 00:38)	00:14	PTWC
1463404	0.3	22 Sep 2022 06:16	7M, 61km	7.29	60 thousand (in MMI>=VII)	0.1m (at 00:38)	00:17	NTWC
1463405	0	22 Sep 2022 06:16	6.8M, 20.707km	6.7	3 thousand (in MMI>=VII)	0.1m (at 00:00)	00:25	NEIC
1463408	0	22 Sep 2022 06:16	6.8M, 24.119km	6.7	4 thousand (in MMI>=VII)	0.1m (at 00:00)	00:35	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Mexico ,of Michoacan (population 3,859,507) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity	Population
	3800 people
	39000 people
	450000 people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Michoacan	Mexico	13000 people
Michoacan	Mexico	170000 people
Michoacan	Mexico	<1000 people
Colima	Mexico	no people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Hizote	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	2 km
Las Trojitas	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	16 km
Calla de Campos	Michoacan de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	29 km
Barranca Seca	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	30 km
Pómaro	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	41 km
Vallecito	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	49 km
Las Pinas	Michoacan de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	55 km
Coalcomán	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	City	10000 people	56 km
Arteaga	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	9400 people	56 km
La Cofradia de Ostula	Michoacan de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	59 km
Ostula	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	62 km
Tumbiscatio	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	62 km
Espinazo del Diablo	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	66 km
Villa Victoria	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	68 km
Playa Azul	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	71 km
San Mateo	Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	Village	-	74 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Intensity	Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)	Distance
	Lazaro Cardenas	LZC	12	Civ.	Paved	No	4900	82 km

More information

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