M 4.6 in Chile on 28 Aug 2016 16:32 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 1092816
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.68 , -71.226
Event Date: 28 Aug 2016 16:32 UTC
28 Aug 2016 13:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 39720 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2016 18:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006utw 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: 968 | About casualties: 75 | Last hour: 0

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eNCA | 17 unaccounted for in typhoon-hit northern JapanThu, 01 Sep 2016 14:40:00 +0200.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),