M 4.9 in Chile on 16 Mar 2014 22:54 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 1027667
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 11.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.854 , -69.7894
Event Date: 16 Mar 2014 22:54 UTC
16 Mar 2014 19:54 Local
Exposed Population:
211501 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2014 23:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),