M 4.5 in Chile on 16 Feb 2017 00:19 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 1105663
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 45.65 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.052 , -71.3736
Event Date: 16 Feb 2017 00:19 UTC
15 Feb 2017 21:19 Local
Exposed Population:
610000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2017 00:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008k40 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Chile: EMERCOM planes dump water on deadly wildfires 2/19/2017 3:51:00 PM.

Footage of Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) aircraft battling large wildfires in and around the Valparaiso region was released on Sunday. An Il-76 aircraft made several trips over urban and rural areas to tackle the fires
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Chile loses 26.5 mln USD from forest fires, 11 dead 2/18/2017 6:25:00 AM.

SANTIAGO, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- A spate of forest fires in Chile lasting from Jan. 18 to Feb. 5 devastated 467,000 hectares, causing an estimated loss of 26.5 million U.S. dollars, the country's National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) said on F
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Chile loses 26.5 mln USD from forest fires, 11 dead 2/18/2017 6:25:00 AM.

SANTIAGO, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- A spate of forest fires in Chile lasting from Jan. 18 to Feb. 5 devastated 467,000 hectares, causing an estimated loss of 26.5 million U.S. dollars, the country's National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) said on F
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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),