M 6.1 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 24 Dec 2015 19:44 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 1076908
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 12.05 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.7757 , -123.0914
Event Date: 24 Dec 2015 19:44 UTC
24 Dec 2015 11:44 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Dec 2015 23:42 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: 334 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Un tsunami en una comuna pobreMon, 28 Dec 2015 10:27:00 +0100.

El intendente del departamento, Pablo Caram, comparó la situación con el paso de un tsunami y aseguró que el río está bajando pero que se encontraron con una realidad de destrucción total, a lo que sumó la pérdida de los productores que imp
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28 dicembre 1908, il disastro dello Stretto: Reggio e Messina distrutt ... Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:17:00 +0100.

(Di lunedì 28 dicembre 2015) Erano le 05:20 del 28 dicembre 1908 e una lunghissima scossa di terremoto di 37 secondi (magnitudo stimata 7.2, tra le più forti della storia d’Italia) rase al suolo quasi tutto tra le due sponde Oggi, 28 dicemb
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Ajenos al tsunamiMon, 28 Dec 2015 10:12:00 +0100.

A Galicia hora mismo, mientras escribimos, no podemos evitar el comentario de aquel paisano de Santalla de Vilaousende, en nuestro Ribadeo natal, al día siguiente de que Felipe González arrasara en las generales de 1982: Están as arradios q
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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 (48), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),