M 5.5 in Chile on 28 Jan 2022 00:31 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 1307779
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 92.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.1264 , -69.3571
Event Date: 28 Jan 2022 00:31 UTC
27 Jan 2022 21:31 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2022 01:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gfq8 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 190 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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MSM Ocean, Sonardyne Partner on Tsunami Early Warning System MSM Ocean ... 2022-01-31T15:07+0100.

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),