M 5.2 in Chile on 11 May 2016 13:11 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 1086126
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 22.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.6487 , -71.8578
Event Date: 11 May 2016 13:11 UTC
11 May 2016 10:11 Local
Exposed Population:
395594 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2016 13:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 531 | About casualties: 52 | Last hour: 0

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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),