M 4.6 in Chile on 19 May 2016 18:28 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 1086567
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 44.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.7107 , -71.4512
Event Date: 19 May 2016 18:28 UTC
19 May 2016 14:28 Local
Exposed Population:
543788 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2016 21:39 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 515 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

How this huge red ball could save your lifeMon, 23 May 2016 17:35:00 +0200.

This is probably the safest thing in the world ever (Picture: Julian Sharpe/Caters News) This huge red ball could be the answer to surviving a tsunami, major fire or just about any disaster. The survival pod fits two people and is fitted wi
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From a prototype device which can detect gluten in food to ...Mon, 23 May 2016 16:41:00 +0200.

Mitteilung von reuters.com: COLOMBO (Reuters) - The cost of Sri Lanka's landslides and floods will be between $1 5 billion and $2 billion at the minimum, the government said on Monday, as the Indian Ocean island struggles to recover from it
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سريلانكا: السيول تسببت في خسائر بين 1.5 مليار و ملياري دولارMon, 23 May 2016 16:30:00 +0200.

قالت حكومة سريلانكا إن تكلفة الانهيارات الأرضية والسيول التي اجتاحت البلاد ستكون بين 1.5 مليار وملياري دولار كحد أدنى فيما تواجه الجزيرة الواقعة في المحيط الهندي صعوبات للتعافي من أسوأ كارثة طبيعية فيها منذ موجات المد العاتية تسونامي التي ض
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GRANDI MOSTREMon, 23 May 2016 16:25:00 +0200.

Après lui, le déluge. Ma il diluvio invocato da re Luigi XV è un’inezia se paragonato alla tempesta che si è abbattuta nel mondo dell’arte dal 1916 in poi. Messi da parte cavalletti, colori e tecniche pittoriche, dopo Marcel Duchamp, l’arte
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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),