M 4.7 in Chile on 18 Jan 2017 13:31 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 1103515
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -43.2545 , -74.4172
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 13:31 UTC
18 Jan 2017 10:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 53000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 14:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007txm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1137 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

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El Centro de Alertas por Tsunami del Pacífico levantó la alerta por riesgo de ola gigante en Papúa Nueva Guinea e Islas Salomón, luego del terremoto de magnitud 7,9 que sacudió este domingo la isla papuana de Bouganville. El organismo indic
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Strong quake hits Solomons; some damage but no tsunamiSun, 22 Jan 2017 13:06:00 +0100.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A powerful magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck deep under Papua New Guinea on Sunday, causing damage and blackouts but no tsunami hours after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an alert for nearby islands. The
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زلزال بقوة 8 درجات يضرب قبالة بابوا غينيا الجديدةSun, 22 Jan 2017 13:05:00 +0100.

وأفادت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية بأن الزلزال حدد على بعد 47 كيلومترا غرب أراوا في جزر بوجانفيل في بابوا غينيا الجديدة. من جانبه، قال مركز المحيط الهادي للتحذير من موجات تسونامي "من المحتمل حدوث موجات مد عاتية (تسونامي) خطيرة وواسعة الن
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Fin de alerta de tsunami tras sismo en Papúa Nueva GuineaSun, 22 Jan 2017 13:01:00 +0100.

El sismo se produjo a 40 kilómetros al oeste de la localidad de Panguna, en Papúa Nueva Guinea, a una profundidad de 153 kilómetros bajo tierra hacia las 15:30 hora local (04:30 GMT) , indicó el USGS. El USGS afirmó que se pudieron producir
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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),