M 4.5 in Chile on 09 Aug 2016 17:56 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 1091555
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 17.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.735 , -72.1962
Event Date: 09 Aug 2016 17:56 UTC
09 Aug 2016 12:56 Local
Exposed Population:
About 29419 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2016 14:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006cds 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: 625 | About casualties: 1 | 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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),