M 4.9 in Chile on 17 Jan 2016 15:28 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 1078761
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 93.63 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.3373 , -68.7901
Event Date: 17 Jan 2016 15:28 UTC
17 Jan 2016 12:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 12353 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2016 17:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 279 | About casualties: 47 | Last hour: 0

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EEUU: Proyectan plan de contingencia para el Gran TerremotoThu, 21 Jan 2016 14:49:00 +0100.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),