M 4.8 in Chile on 17 Mar 2017 08:02 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 1108025
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 30.65 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.4478 , -71.7473
Event Date: 17 Mar 2017 08:02 UTC
17 Mar 2017 03:02 Local
Exposed Population:
1350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2017 08:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008smr 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: 519 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Iwate tsunami survivor erects wooden monument to warn others of high-w ... Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:15:00 +0100.

OTSUCHI, IWATE PREF. – Yusaku Yoshida knew of a stone monument marking the high-water point of tsunami that hit the town of Otsuchi in 1933, but he realized local residents failed to recognize it when the March 2011 waves hit shortly after
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Entwicklungshilfe: Der Kampf um die SpendenTue, 21 Mar 2017 07:08:00 +0100.

Jahrelang ging es nur aufwärts: Sowohl der Staat wie auch private Spender zahlten immer mehr Geld zur Unterstützung notleidender Menschen oder zur Verbesserung der Lebenschancen in unterentwickelten Staaten. Die Spendenhöhe stagniert nach e
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Autoridades evaluarán en simulacro de tsunami capacidad de respuesta a ... Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:56:00 +0100.

Caracas, 20 Mar. AVN.- El ejercicio internacional del simulacro de tsunami Caribe Wave 2017 se realizará este martes en las costas de los estados Anzoátegui, Falcón, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Vargas y Zulia, con el propósito de evaluar los plan
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Hoy harán simulacro regional de tsunamiTue, 21 Mar 2017 05:52:00 +0100.

Maracaibo se prepara para un posible tsunami. Protección Civil de Maracaibo junto a la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura (Unesco), realizará ho,y a partir de las 10.00 de la mañana, un simulacro d
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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),