M 4.9 in Chile on 04 Jan 2017 13:24 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 1102487
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -30.2729 , -71.5795
Event Date: 04 Jan 2017 13:24 UTC
04 Jan 2017 10:24 Local
Exposed Population:
610000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jan 2017 13:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007pnw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 586 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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Un terremoto de magnitud 5,9 sacudió este domingo el noroeste de la República de Papua Nueva Guinea sin que las autoridades hayan informado de víctimas ni daños materiales de entidad ni activado la aleta de tsunami. Con un epicentro a 66 ki
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA TSUNAMI KILLS 70 VILLAGERSSun, 08 Jan 2017 12:32:00 +0100.

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (July 18, 1998 - The Australian News Network)---A tsunami slammed into a remote area of north-west Papua New Guinea, killing at least 70 people and obliterating entire villages, the country's National Disaster
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Magnitude 5.9 quake shakes northwest PNGSun, 08 Jan 2017 12:26:00 +0100.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake has struck the northwest of Papua New Guinea, with no reports of casualties or material damage by authorities, or even the activation of the tsunami alert. The US Geological Survey, which records seismic activity
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Un cutremur de 5,9 grade pe scara Richter s-a în Papua Noua Guin ... Sun, 08 Jan 2017 12:18:00 +0100.

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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.
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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),