M 5.2 in Chile on 31 Oct 2018 12:36 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 1160657
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.383 , -66.2949
Event Date: 31 Oct 2018 12:36 UTC
31 Oct 2018 08:36 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Oct 2018 12:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000i4ke Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 162 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Un terremoto de magnitud 6,2 grados en la escala de Ritcher ha sacudido este jueves el norte de Chile. Por el momento no hay heridos, ni daños materiales. El movimiento tectónico se ha dejado sentir en las regiones de Arica y Parinacota, Ta
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Un terremoto de 6,2 grados sacude el norte de ChileSat, 03 Nov 2018 04:16:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,2 grados en la escala de Ritcher ha sacudido este jueves el norte de Chile. Por el momento no hay heridos, ni daños materiales. El movimiento tectónico se ha dejado sentir en las regiones de Arica y Parinacota, Ta
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Sismo de 6,2 grados sacude Chile sin dañosSat, 03 Nov 2018 02:07:00 +0100.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, noviembre 1. Los chilenos de la localidad norteña de Carmiña, región de Tarapacá, sufrieron este jueves un movimiento sísmico de 6,2 grados de la escala Richter, sin pérdidas humanas ni materiales. El epicentro estuvo ubi
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5:09 Fourth Earthquake in Twelve Hours in Northern ChileFri, 02 Nov 2018 22:22:00 +0100.

02 de noviembre de 2018, 17:09 Santiago de Chile, Nov 2 (Prensa Latina) In the course of 12 hours the north of Chile was shaken by four earthquakes, three of them over 6.0 on the Richter scale and the most recent one of 4.5 to the west of M
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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),