M 6.7 in Chile on 17 Apr 2012 03:50 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 116160
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 37 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.7006 , -71.4839
Event Date: 17 Apr 2012 03:50 UTC
17 Apr 2012 00:50 Local
Exposed Population:
1850000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 13:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1.1 0 1.1
usc00095a2 Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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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 (81), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), (3), INFORM (4), USGS (2),