M 5.2 in Chile on 29 May 2015 04:28 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 1056086
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 52.24 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.1296 , -70.6994
Event Date: 29 May 2015 04:28 UTC
29 May 2015 01:28 Local
Exposed Population:
211909 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2015 04:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),