M 5 in Chile on 19 Jan 2017 12:01 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 1103587
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.8353 , -71.5487
Event Date: 19 Jan 2017 12:01 UTC
19 Jan 2017 09:01 Local
Exposed Population:
290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2017 12:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007u35 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1260 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

Sri Lanka: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot ... Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:40:00 +0100.

SRI LANKA. As of 17 January, an estimated 644,000 people across eight provinces have been affected by drought and salt water intrusion over the past four months. Batticaloa District in Eastern province is the worst affected with 302,000 peo
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Art. “Rebirth”, un projet dessiné impressionnant sur le tsunamiMon, 23 Jan 2017 11:35:00 +0100.

Trois ans, trois mois et douze jours, c’est le temps qu’il a fallu au Japonais Manabu Ikeda pour dessiner son projet Rebirth . Incroyablement détaillée et minutieuse, l’œuvre fait écho au tsunami de 2011 et à la crise nucléaire qui a suivi.
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Diga di Campotosto, nuovi dubbi sulla tenuta ma l’Enel rassicuraMon, 23 Jan 2017 10:34:00 +0100.

CAMPOTOSTO. Trecento milioni di metri cubi di acqua, uno “tsunami” che investirebbe la vallata circostante, spazzando via tutto quello che incontra sul suo cammino. Uno scenario apocalittico, quello del crollo della diga di Campotosto, evoc
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Powerful Quake Triggers Tsunami Alert in Eastern Papua New GuineaMon, 23 Jan 2017 10:10:00 +0100.

SYDNEY – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake shook the island of Bouganville in eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, leading authorities to issue a tsunami alert in several countries in this region of the Pacific. The United States Geological Survey,
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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),