M 4.7 in Chile on 19 Feb 2017 19:07 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 1105967
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 18.39 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.4792 , -73.8972
Event Date: 19 Feb 2017 19:07 UTC
19 Feb 2017 16:07 Local
Exposed Population:
230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2017 19:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008ktu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),