M 4.5 in Chile on 21 May 2016 18:23 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 1086712
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.5506 , -71.7807
Event Date: 21 May 2016 18:23 UTC
21 May 2016 13:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2016 18:54 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

Articles: 376 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Sri Lankan flood-hit families left with nothing, Red Cross ...Wed, 25 May 2016 17:56:00 +0200.

Last week's floods are considered worst natural disaster in the Indian Ocean region since a 2004 tsunami. By Magdalena Mis. LONDON, May 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Floods in Sri Lanka which have forced more than 350,000 people from th
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Sri Lankan flood-hit families left with nothing, Red Cross saysWed, 25 May 2016 17:34:00 +0200.

. Reuters LONDON- Floods in Sri Lanka which have forced more than 350,000 people from their homes have left some families with nothing, the Red Cross said on Wednesday as it launched an emergency appeal to deliver relief to tens of thousan
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Nationalteam - Harnik und Klein: Wenn sich Buhmänner wehrenWed, 25 May 2016 17:13:00 +0200.

Martin Harnik und Florian Klein lassen sich keine Mitschuld am Stuttgarter Abstieg andichten. In sozialen Netzwerken wurde gehetzt und gedroht. Laax – Es ist nicht so, dass Fußballer nach Medienterminen lechzen. Aber Martin Harnik und Flori
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Sri Lankan flood-hit families left with nothing, Red Cross says in eme ... Wed, 25 May 2016 16:28:00 +0200.

By Magdalena Mis. LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Floods in Sri Lanka which have forced more than 350,000 people from their homes have left some families with nothing, the Red Cross said on Wednesday as it launched an emergency appeal
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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),