M 5 in Chile on 19 Jan 2017 12:01 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 1103587
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.8353 , -71.5487
Event Date: 19 Jan 2017 12:01 UTC
19 Jan 2017 09:01 Local
Exposed Population:
290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2017 12:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007u35 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

90'000 hectares dévastés par 36 incendies 1/23/2017 8:13:00 AM.

chili Le Chili est en proie à 36 incendies simultanés, qui ont déjà dévasté 90'000 hectares. Le pays n'avait plus connu de flammes de pareille intensité depuis des dizaines d'années. Près de 90'000 hectares ont déjà été ravagés par les f
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Chile seeks international aid amid some of worst wildfires in its hist.. 1/23/2017 6:43:00 AM.

Volunteers help put out a fire in Pumanque, 140 km south of Santiago on Saturday Credit: AFP S ome of the worst wildfires in Chile's history have destroyed more than 100,000 hectares of forest and forced the government to seek internatio
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Chile declares state of emergency due to massive wildfires 1/23/2017 5:41:00 AM.

SANTIAGO - Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched nearly 50,000 hectares (123,500 acres) threatened to encroach on towns, factories and vineyards. Firefighters, forestry service perso
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Chile seeks aid amid some of worst wildfires in its history 1/23/2017 2:32:00 AM.

Residents watch a forest fire burn in Pumanque, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Chile is suffering one of the worst fire waves in its history. The fires have outpaced local ability to control them and forced Chile to request international 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),