M 4.7 in Chile on 12 Oct 2016 01:59 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 1095617
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35.54 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.704 , -71.5439
Event Date: 12 Oct 2016 01:59 UTC
11 Oct 2016 22:59 Local
Exposed Population:
598535 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2016 02:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007dbk 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: 267 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Storm brings down trees, powerlines in NorthwestSun, 16 Oct 2016 01:51:00 +0200.

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press. SEATTLE (AP) - Trees and power lines snapped Saturday as a powerful storm bearing the remnants of a Pacific typhoon hit the Northwest. Tens of thousands of people were without power in Oregon and Washington
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Storm brings down trees, powerlines in NorthwestSun, 16 Oct 2016 01:50:00 +0200.

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press. SEATTLE (AP) - Trees and power lines snapped Saturday as a powerful storm bearing the remnants of a Pacific typhoon hit the Northwest. Tens of thousands of people were without power in Oregon and Washington
...(more)
Storm Brings Down Trees, Powerlines in NorthwestSun, 16 Oct 2016 01:46:00 +0200.

Trees and power lines snapped Saturday as a powerful storm bearing the remnants of a Pacific typhoon hit the Northwest. Tens of thousands of people were without power in Oregon and Washington on Saturday as the storm made landfall after gat
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Storm brings down trees, powerlines in NorthwestSun, 16 Oct 2016 01:46:00 +0200.

SEATTLE -- (AP) Trees and power lines snapped Saturday as a powerful storm bearing the remnants of a Pacific typhoon hit the Northwest. Tens of thousands of people were without power in Oregon and Washington on Saturday as the storm made la
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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),