M 5.5 in Chile on 30 Aug 2016 08:09 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 1092913
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 19.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -34.8983 , -72.5297
Event Date: 30 Aug 2016 08:09 UTC
30 Aug 2016 03:09 Local
Exposed Population: 220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2016 08:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006v8s 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: 311 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

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Il Comune batte cassa in Regione: Abbiamo danni per 200mila euro Lezio ... Sat, 03 Sep 2016 05:51:00 +0200.

2 settembre 2016. Lezioni nella sala mensa per i bambini delle elementari di Santo Stefano che mercoledì torneranno sui banchi di scuola. La violenta grandinata del 10 agosto scorso ha devastato il tetto dell’edificio scolastico di via Piav
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'Late to the party are you?' - Civil Defence criticised for taking an ... Sat, 03 Sep 2016 05:48:00 +0200.

Just this week Civil Defence did a training exercise to prepare staff for a tsunami, they say there are things to work on but they'll learn from the real life tsunami warning today. "I got 6 o'clock news on TV ONE and that's how I know abo
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),