M 4.6 in Chile on 16 Feb 2017 18:39 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 1105725
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 23.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.8397 , -73.6786
Event Date: 16 Feb 2017 18:39 UTC
16 Feb 2017 13:39 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2017 23:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008kaj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 580 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Erap wants Manila hospitals ready for the ‘Big One’Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:02:00 +0100.

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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),