M 4.9 in Chile on 09 Mar 2016 13:28 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 1082134
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 48.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.4676 , -71.3993
Event Date: 09 Mar 2016 13:28 UTC
09 Mar 2016 10:28 Local
Exposed Population:
551937 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Mar 2016 13:48 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.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 424 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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تطبيق جديد يحوّل الهواتف الذكية إلى مركز لكشف الزلازلSun, 13 Mar 2016 12:58:00 +0100.

كاليفورنيا - قدس برس ابتكرت مجموعة من العلماء تطبيقاً جديداً للهواتف المحمولة، يمكنه التنبؤ بوقوع الزلازل وموجات المد العاتية (تسونامي) قبل وقت قصير من حدوثها. وقال ريتشارد ألين مدير مختبر رصد الزلازل في جامعة كاليفورنيا في "بيركلي" (شمال)
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Protestos furiosos contra Donald TrumpSun, 13 Mar 2016 12:53:00 +0100.

Milhares de pessoas se manifestaram contra a participação do controverso pré-candidato republicano às eleições americanas Donald Trump em evento eleitoral na Universidade de Illinois, em Chicago, na noite de sexta-feira (11/03). De acordo c
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Mer turquoise et chapelles blanches, la Grèce veut faire oublier les r ... Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:12:00 +0100.

"Nous pensons que l'année 2016 va être encore meilleure que l'an dernier car s'il y a eu quelques problèmes sur certaines îles, il y a maintenant un retour à la stabilité", assure à l'AFP la ministre grecque du Tourisme, Elena Kountoura, pr
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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),