M 5.4 in Chile on 29 Jan 2017 17:38 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 1104351
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.0391 , -64.8793
Event Date: 29 Jan 2017 17:38 UTC
29 Jan 2017 13:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2017 18:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007w2i Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 721 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

Chile: Emergency operation continues in battle against raging forest f ... Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:28:00 +0100.

SOT, Reporter (Spanish): "Provoked." SOT, Marco Fuente, Ministry of Public Works (Spanish): "We believe it was not natural, it was started by men. And we all think the same because it is too rare to have something like this in several regio
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World: Protect wetlands to reduce disaster riskThu, 02 Feb 2017 16:21:00 +0100.

By Jonathan Fowler. GENEVA, 2 February 2017 – Sites such as mangroves, coral reefs, flood plains or peat marshes are natural buffers against weather hazards including storms and floods, according to experts marking this year’s World Wetland
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Fukushima nuclear disaster: Worker sues Tepco over cancerThu, 02 Feb 2017 16:04:00 +0100.

Image copyright AFP Image caption The plaintiff helped build scaffolding to repair the damaged No 4 reactor at the Fukushima plant. A Japanese court has begun hearing the case of a man who developed leukaemia after working as a welder at th
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Philippines: Built to last: SOS Children’s Villages keep children safe ... Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:21:00 +0100.

Recent emergencies in Philippines, Nepal and Haiti show the value of sound construction. When a natural disaster hits an SOS Children’s Village, the ability of its infrastructure to resist the forces of nature is crucial to keep the childre
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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),