M 4.5 in Chile on 15 Oct 2015 20:39 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 1069244
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 28.95 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.5711 , -71.6499
Event Date: 15 Oct 2015 20:39 UTC
15 Oct 2015 17:39 Local
Exposed Population:
535191 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2015 21:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 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

Articles: 313 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

BJP tsunami will sweep Nitish, Lalu away: ShahMon, 19 Oct 2015 20:33:00 +0200.

Ara: BJP president Amit Shah and Union skill development minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Monday warned people against return of 'jungle raj II' in the state. Addressing separate election rallies in Bhojpur district, the two BJP functionaries
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Iran preparing for 'tsunami' of touristsMon, 19 Oct 2015 20:15:00 +0200.

TEHRAN, Iran--Iran's vice president told The Associated Press on Sunday his country is preparing for a "tsunami" of foreign tourists as Iran and world powers are set to begin implementing a landmark nuclear deal that will lift sanctions in
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Terremoto en Chile: comunicaciones a través de teléfonos móviles se tr ... Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:48:00 +0200.

. Dos empresas de servicio de telefonía móvil brindaron sus cifras actualizadas. En un caso se aseguró que a pesar del terremoto , el sistema no dejó de funcionar, mientras que en otro se afirmó que se compensará a aquellas personas que tu
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Máxima alerta por lluvias en el norte chilenoMon, 19 Oct 2015 19:11:00 +0200.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Las autoridades de emergencia chilenas decretaron el alerta máxima por las lluvias esperadas el lunes en la norteña región de Coquimbo, que se recupera de los efectos del tsunami que el 16 de septiembre siguió a un terr
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),