M 5 in Chile on 25 Mar 2017 06:59 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 1108595
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 112.56 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.8541 , -69.1105
Event Date: 25 Mar 2017 06:59 UTC
25 Mar 2017 03:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 23000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2017 07:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20008uis Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 414 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Strong quake of 6.9 magnitude hits Russia's far east - USGSWed, 29 Mar 2017 06:48:00 +0200.

(Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck near Komandorskiye Ostrava in Russia's far east on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of about 33 km (20 miles) just off the coast in
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Strong quake of 6.9 magnitude hits Russia's far east - USGSWed, 29 Mar 2017 06:45:00 +0200.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck near Komandorskiye Ostrava in Russia's far east on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of about 33 km (20 miles) just off the coast in the Bering S
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زلزال قوته 6.9 درجات على مقياس ريختر يضرب شرق روسياWed, 29 Mar 2017 06:45:00 +0200.

(رويترز) قالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجى الأمريكية إن زلزالا قوته 6.9 درجة وقع قرب كوماندورسكى أوستروفا فى أقصى شرق روسيا اليوم الأربعاء كان الزلزال على عمق نحو 33 كيلومترا قبالة الساحل فى بحر بيرنج. وجرى تحديد قوته فى البداية عند سبع درجات ولم ي
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Un bote de Defensa Civil se dio vuelta y los ocupantes se salvaron de ... Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:06:00 +0200.

“El bote se dio vuelta por la correntada y a los gritos cada cual alcanzó a agarrarse de los yuyos para que el agua no nos llevara. A mi hijo Marcelo, de 12 años, lo alcanzó a tomar uno de los rescatistas. Parecía que era nuestro último mom
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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),