M 5.2 in Chile on 12 Mar 2016 16:05 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 1082354
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 30.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.2439 , -71.7062
Event Date: 12 Mar 2016 16:05 UTC
12 Mar 2016 13:05 Local
Exposed Population:
525360 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2016 16:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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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),