M 5 in Chile on 12 Dec 2015 15:08 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 1075626
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 42.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.0098 , -71.9628
Event Date: 12 Dec 2015 15:08 UTC
12 Dec 2015 12:08 Local
Exposed Population:
1091737 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2015 15:27 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 414 | About casualties: 56 | Last hour: 0

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Heavy flooding as Philippine typhoon death toll climbs to 11Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:09:00 +0100.

Rescuers on speedboats hauled rain-soaked residents off rooftops in the Philippine countryside on Wednesday after Typhoon Melor killed at least 11 people and cut power for millions. The typhoon, which tore in off the Pacific Ocean on Monday
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Philippines again left to count the cost of brutal weather as death to ... Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:02:00 +0100.

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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),