M 4.5 in Chile on 26 Apr 2015 15:34 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 1053049
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 93.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.009 , -68.8555
Event Date: 26 Apr 2015 15:34 UTC
26 Apr 2015 12:34 Local
Exposed Population:
About 13077 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2015 19:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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: 675 | About casualties: 97 | Last hour: 0

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A magnitude-6.7 earthquake has struck New Britain island off Papua New Guinea, 131 kilometres south-west of the town of Kokopo, US seismologists say. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said "a destructive Pacific-wide ts
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Séisme de 6,7 en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, pas de menace de tsunamiThu, 30 Apr 2015 15:34:00 +0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 6,7 (révisé d'une précédente évaluation à 6,8) a frappé l'île de Nouvelle-Bretagne située dans le nord-est de l'archipel de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, mais ne menaçait pas de provoquer un tsunami, selon les institu
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Papúa Nueva Guinea | Un terremoto de 6,8 grados sacude el noreste del ... Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:34:00 +0200.

Un seísmo de magnitud 6,8 grados, según datos preliminares, sacudió hoy la isla de Nueva Bretaña, en el noreste de Papúa Nueva Guinea, sin que se haya declarado alerta de tsunami o informado de víctimas. El servicio geológico de Estados Uni
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Un terremoto de 6,8 grados sacude a Papúa Nueva GuineaThu, 30 Apr 2015 15:33:00 +0200.

Un sismo de magnitud 6,8 grados, según datos preliminares , sacudió este jueves la isla de Nueva Bretaña, en el noreste de Papúa Nueva Guinea, sin que se haya declarado alerta de tsunami o informado de víctimas. El servicio geológico de Est
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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),