M 5 in Near Coast Of Northern Chile on 05 Jun 2014 20:19 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 1033709
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35.15 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.3589 , -70.2657
Event Date: 05 Jun 2014 20:19 UTC
05 Jun 2014 16:19 Local
Exposed Population:
237986 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jun 2014 20:50 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 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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Latest media headlines

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Grand Cayman prepares for natural disasters with a lecture series and a tsunami exercise.
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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),