M 4.6 in Chile on 08 Apr 2017 15:39 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 1109775
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 49.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.9043 , -71.043
Event Date: 08 Apr 2017 15:39 UTC
08 Apr 2017 10:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 21000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2017 16:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008fuw 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),