M 4.5 in Chile on 28 Jan 2017 13:39 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 1104277
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -26.5954 , -70.82
Event Date: 28 Jan 2017 13:39 UTC
28 Jan 2017 10:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2017 13:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007vxt 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 739 | About casualties: 70 | Last hour: 0

فيلم وثائقي يكشف سر خطير حول مدينة "أطلانطس" المفقودة (فيديو)Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:33:00 +0100.

أنتج فريق أمريكي من علماء البحار، فيلمًا وثائقيًا للبحث عن أثر مدينة أطلانطس المفقودة تحت الماء، وعثروا على مراس حجرية كبيرة في مياه مضيق جبل طارق، بين إسبانيا وأفريقيا، تؤكد أنها كانت موجودة بالفعل وبالقرب من إسبانيا. يظهر الفيلم الذي نشرت
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Chile wildfires: Devastating fires kill 11 and force 800 to evacuate h ... Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:19:00 +0100.

Chile wildfires: Devastating fires kill 11 and force 800 to evacuate homes as state of emergency declared Firefighters in Chile were today continuing to battle devastating wildfires which have killed 11 people and forced the evacuation of
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Chile wildfires: Devastating fires kill 11 and force 800 to evacuate h ... Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:56:00 +0100.

1/9. A resident wets down the ground surrounding his home, threatened by a nearby wildfire in Portezuelo. AP; 2/9. Wildfires straddle Chile's Dichato community. AP; 3/9. At least 11 people have been killed in the wildfires. AP; 4/9. A man b
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Combat work of wildfire underway in Chillan, ChileWed, 01 Feb 2017 08:16:00 +0100.

A man participates in the combat work of a wildfire in the town of Santa Cruz de Cuca of the city of Chillan， in the province of Nuble， Chile， on Jan. 31， 2017. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday said her government will make al
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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),