M 4.5 in Chile on 05 Feb 2016 10:44 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 1080024
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 12.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -36.1344 , -73.7512
Event Date: 05 Feb 2016 10:44 UTC
05 Feb 2016 05:44 Local
Exposed Population:
726276 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2016 11:39 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

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Earthquake in Papua New Guinea: Massive magnitude 6.3 quake strikes is ... Tue, 09 Feb 2016 06:30:00 +0100.

A massive earthquake in Papua New Guinea with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale has struck the the island of Bougainville early on Tuesday. The earthquake, at 2.19 a.m, was centred about 94 km southwest of the town of Pan
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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits off Papua New Guinea: USGSTue, 09 Feb 2016 06:30:00 +0100.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island early today, US seismologists said, with no immediate tsunami warning issued. The quake hit some 96 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of Panguna at 2:1
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Strong Quake Hits Solomon IslandsTue, 09 Feb 2016 05:51:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 (Bernama) -- A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the Solomon Islands at 12.19am today, according the to Malaysian Meteorological Department. In a statement here, the department said the epicentre was 124km southwest of Arawa,
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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),