M 5 in Chile on 05 Feb 2016 05:24 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 1080007
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 25.85 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.074 , -71.7623
Event Date: 05 Feb 2016 05:24 UTC
05 Feb 2016 02:24 Local
Exposed Population:
218333 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2016 05:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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: 253 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Japan's taxi drivers pick up "ghost passengers" in area hit by 2011 ts ... Tue, 09 Feb 2016 04:44:00 +0100.

This was proven by the fact that all seven drivers had started their cab meters. Kudo also said that many of the seven cabbies had noted that their passengers were young in age. One of the drivers even admitted to Kudo that he had lost a fa
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Massive earthquake hits Papua New GuineaTue, 09 Feb 2016 04:43:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 has struck off the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville early on Tuesday morning. The earthquake, at 2:19 a.m. Tuesday local time, was centered about 94 kilometers southwest of the
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Sismo de magnitud 6,3 frente a Papúa Nueva Guinea, dice USGSTue, 09 Feb 2016 04:24:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,3 sacudió la costa de Papúa Nueva Guinea en la madrugada del martes, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS), aunque no hubo alerta de tsunami. El sismo tuvo lugar a unos 96 kilómetros al suroeste d
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Massive earthquake near BougainvilleTue, 09 Feb 2016 03:59:00 +0100.

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit near the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville early on Tuesday morning. The undersea quake struck at 3.19am local time, at a depth of 30.6 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. Its epicentre was 94 kil
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),