M 4.5 in Chile on 19 Feb 2017 15:49 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 1105959
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 19.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.4509 , -74.0305
Event Date: 19 Feb 2017 15:49 UTC
19 Feb 2017 10:49 Local
Exposed Population:
320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2017 17:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008kt6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 525 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Canadian Forces on guard for 'Big One' earthquake in B.C.Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:43:00 +0100.

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Haiti: New grant to help UNICEF strengthen efforts to tackle choleraThu, 23 Feb 2017 12:56:00 +0100.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),