M 5.3 in Chile on 02 Mar 2015 16:53 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 1049474
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 32.15 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.8698 , -71.0899
Event Date: 02 Mar 2015 16:53 UTC
02 Mar 2015 13:53 Local
Exposed Population:
213367 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2015 21:37 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 492 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Así será el ensayo de sismoFri, 06 Mar 2015 01:14:00 +0100.

Autoridades deberán elaborar una evaluación del ejercicio para la Presidencia. Un terremoto de 7 grados en la escala Richter, seguido de una alerta de tsunami, será el escenario que utilizarán las autoridades del Sistema Nacional para la Pr
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Declaraciones de Rosario Murillo (05/03/2015)Fri, 06 Mar 2015 01:14:00 +0100.

Muy buenas tardes, queridas Familias; buenas tardes, Herman@s; buenas tardes, de hoy jueves 5 de Marzo. Hoy es un día de Unidad Nuestroamericana. Un día de Hermandad. Un día para ratificar el Compromiso de la Patria Grande… La Patria Grande
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Precavidos, ¡siempre!Fri, 06 Mar 2015 01:14:00 +0100.

La Coordinadora del Consejo de Comunicación y Ciudadanía, Compañera Rosario Murillo, reiteró el llamado a la población de mantenerse alerta y adoptar las medidas recomendadas ante la posibilidad de nuevos eventos sísmicos en territorio naci
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Big tsunami raked Mexico's Yucatan coast 1,000 years agoFri, 06 Mar 2015 00:08:00 +0100.

Access to myAJC included for AJC subscribers Explore By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A wall of debris stretching about 30 miles (50 km) may be the remnants of a natural disaster that struck Mexico's Caribbean coast more than 1,000 yea
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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),