M 5.2 in Chile on 12 Dec 2016 01:40 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 1100656
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 50.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.9581 , -71.3951
Event Date: 12 Dec 2016 01:40 UTC
11 Dec 2016 22:40 Local
Exposed Population:
231048 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2016 02:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000802x 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: 603 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

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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),