M 4.9 in Chile on 18 Jul 2016 02:58 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 1090178
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 26.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.7538 , -71.7939
Event Date: 18 Jul 2016 02:58 UTC
17 Jul 2016 22:58 Local
Exposed Population:
357625 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2016 03:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006fgd 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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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),