M 4.7 in Chile on 30 Mar 2017 06:48 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 1108993
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 16.46 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.0864 , -74.0098
Event Date: 30 Mar 2017 06:48 UTC
30 Mar 2017 01:48 Local
Exposed Population:
200000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2017 07:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008d88 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),