M 5 in Chile on 26 Feb 2017 08:59 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 1106492
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 31.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.9219 , -71.4883
Event Date: 26 Feb 2017 08:59 UTC
26 Feb 2017 05:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 74000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2017 09:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mhp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 619 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima cleanup chief urges better use of probe robotThu, 02 Mar 2017 08:10:00 +0100.

The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed in developing robots to locate and assess the condition of melted fuel rods. Naohiro Masuda, president of Fukushima Dai-ichi d
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Fukushima cleanup chief urges better use of probe robotThu, 02 Mar 2017 08:07:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed in developing robots to locate and assess the condition of melted fuel rods. Naohiro Masuda, president of Fukushim
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زلزال شدته 5.5 درجة يضرب خليج كوك قبالة سواحل آلاسكاThu, 02 Mar 2017 08:01:00 +0100.

زلزال شدته 5.5 درجة يضرب خليج كوك قبالة سواحل آلاسكا. أعلنت ، أن زلزال بلغت قوته 5.5 درجة وقع، الأربعاء 1 مارس، في خليج كوك قبالة سواحل ولاية الأمريكية. ويقع مركز ال زلزال على بعد 42 كيلومترا إلى الجنوب الغربي من المنطقة السكانية "انكور ب
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زلزال شدته 5.5 درجة يضرب خليج كوك قبالة سواحل آلاسكاThu, 02 Mar 2017 08:01:00 +0100.

زلزال شدته 5.5 درجة يضرب خليج كوك قبالة سواحل آلاسكا. أعلنت ، أن زلزال بلغت قوته 5.5 درجة وقع، الأربعاء 1 مارس، في خليج كوك قبالة سواحل ولاية الأمريكية. ويقع مركز ال زلزال على بعد 42 كيلومترا إلى الجنوب الغربي من المنطقة السكانية "انكور ب
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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),