M 5.6 in Chile on 08 Jan 2016 01:12 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 1078136
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 30.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.6613 , -71.6762
Event Date: 08 Jan 2016 01:12 UTC
07 Jan 2016 22:12 Local
Exposed Population: 530000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jan 2016 01:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 347 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Cutremur devastator în IndoneziaMon, 11 Jan 2016 22:57:00 +0100.

Coordonatele de receptie a programelor Realitatea TV sunt: Satelit: IntelSat 1002; Pozitie orbitala: 1 grad Vest; Frecventa de receptie: 12687 MHz; Polarizare: Orizontala; S.R: 27500 kSymb/s; FEC: 3/4. Cutremurul a avut loc la o adancime d
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Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes west of Hokkaido,Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:29:00 +0100.

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.1 quake struck in the ocean 75 km (47 miles) south of the town of Rishiri on the Japanese island of Hokkaido early on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It put the depth of the quake at 236 km, and o
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Japonya'da depremMon, 11 Jan 2016 22:26:00 +0100.

ABD Jeolojik Araştırmalar Merkezi, depremin merkez üssünün Japonya'nın Rişiri Adası'nın 75 kilometre güneyi, başkent Tokyo'nun 984 kilometre kuzeyi olduğunu açıkladı. Depremin 236 kilometre derinlikte meydana geldiği kaydedildi. Pasifik Tsu
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Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes west of Hokkaido, Japan - USGSMon, 11 Jan 2016 22:23:00 +0100.

(Updates with assessment from Japan Meteorological Agency) Jan 11 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.1 quake struck in the ocean 75 km (47 miles) south of the town of Rishiri on the Japanese island of Hokkaido early on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geol
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),