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Orange Earthquake alert in Chile on 17/04/2012 03:50 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Summary

Summary

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This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on update number 3.

  • Earthquake magnitude 6.7M and depth 37km
  • on 17/04/2012 03:50 UTC
  • 1800000 people within 100km

Tsunami

The maximum Tsunami wave height is  0.1m in Concon, Chile. This height is estimated for 16 May 2012 05:18:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: usc00095a2 (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 566 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Erdbeben erschüttert Papua-Region in Indonesien
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:59:00 +0200   maerkischeallgemeine (de)

Jakarta (dpa) - Ein schweres Erdbeben hat die Papua-Region im indonesischen Teil der Insel Neuguinea erschüttert. Wie die geophysikalische Behörde des Landes mitteilte, erreichten die Erdstöße eine ...

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USGS: Magnitude-6.1 quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:55:00 +0200   gmanews (en)

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

People and organisations: US Geological Survey 

Tsunami en Arucas
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:53:00 +0200   laprovincia (es)

El Juzgado logra, tras una década de denuncias, 'dar' con el responsable de un gigantesco vertedero ilegal

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EMM (2), JRC (44), (2), WMO (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), NOAA (1),

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