M 4.7 in Northern Chile on 19 Jan 2016 11:39 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 1078859
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 90.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.8555 , -68.9001
Event Date: 19 Jan 2016 11:39 UTC
19 Jan 2016 08:39 Local
Exposed Population:
157749 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2016 12:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 305 | About casualties: 62 | Last hour: 0

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More people in Miyagi coastal areas have depressive tendencies: studySat, 23 Jan 2016 04:07:00 +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.
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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),