M 5.1 in Chile on 12 Aug 2015 00:14 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 1062828
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 33.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.6953 , -71.6549
Event Date: 12 Aug 2015 00:14 UTC
11 Aug 2015 21:14 Local
Exposed Population:
184146 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2015 00:33 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  
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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),