M 5.3 in Chile on 21 Sep 2015 18:36 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 1066548
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 27.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.0447 , -71.8145
Event Date: 21 Sep 2015 18:36 UTC
21 Sep 2015 15:36 Local
Exposed Population: 200000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2015 14:54 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1048 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

13:06 | Gobierno estudia implementar un centro sismológico mundial en ... Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:28:00 +0200.

Publicado por Catalina Díaz La jornada de este viernes el Subsecretario del Interior, Mahmud Aleuy, realizó un nuevo balance de la situación que se vive en la región de Coquimbo tras el terremoto 8.4 y posterior tsunami que afectó a la zona
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Weather Service sends tsunami alert on mistakeFri, 25 Sep 2015 18:20:00 +0200.

Some Connecticut residents must have had quite the scare after a tsunami warning was sent on mistake. According to an Associated Press report, four coastal counties and part of Long Island Sound were alerted Thursday morning, and several C
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Interior informa del aumento de damnificados por terremoto y tsunami e ... Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:15:00 +0200.

Interior comunica aumento de damnificados por terremoto y tsunami De acuerdo a la última estadística gubernamental de las 13.427 personas registradas hasta el miércoles, la cifra subió a 16.056 afectados. Ver más Sismos en Chile SANTIAGO.-
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Damnificados tras terremoto y tsunami en el norte llegan a 16.056 pers ... Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:12:00 +0200.

A 16.056 personas llega al día de hoy la cifra de damnificados por el terremoto y tsunami en la Región de Coquimbo , según la cifra actualizada entregada este mediodía por el ministro del Interior (s), Mahmud Aleuy, quien además indicó que
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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.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),