M 6.2 in Near Coast Of Northern Chile on 17 Mar 2014 05:11 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 1027687
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 17 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.003 , -70.8741
Event Date: 17 Mar 2014 05:11 UTC
17 Mar 2014 00:11 Local
Exposed Population:
225015 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2014 07:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0
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

Articles: 375 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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