M 4.8 in Chile on 27 Mar 2016 12:01 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 1083236
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -45.6558 , -77.316
Event Date: 27 Mar 2016 12:01 UTC
27 Mar 2016 07:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Mar 2016 12:20 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  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 384 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Tsunami forces shut down of Japanese portsThu, 31 Mar 2016 10:16:00 +0200.

Tokyo: A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit northeastern Japan has forced the shut down of Sendai and Tokyo ports. A 7.3-metre tsunami was seen in Soma port in Sendai and a 4.1-metre tsunami was observed in Kamaishi port in Iwate 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.
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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),