M 4.6 in Chile on 08 Jan 2016 18:41 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 1078192
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 87.96 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.9591 , -70.6112
Event Date: 08 Jan 2016 18:41 UTC
08 Jan 2016 15:41 Local
Exposed Population:
7951410 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jan 2016 22:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 370 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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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),