M 5.1 in Chile on 11 Apr 2017 13:39 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 1109993
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 84.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.6087 , -70.0878
Event Date: 11 Apr 2017 13:39 UTC
11 Apr 2017 10:39 Local
Exposed Population:
190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2017 14:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
us10008gk8 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Magnitude 6.1 quake hits northern ChileSat, 15 Apr 2017 12:30:00 +0200.

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زلزال قوي يضرب شمال تشيليSat, 15 Apr 2017 12:25:00 +0200.

زلزال في مدينة كالاما.. صورة أرشيفية كلمات دالة; سانتياجو - قنا. ضرب زلزال بقوة 6.1 درجة على سلم ريختر، شمال تشيلي اليوم السبت. وذكرت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية، أن مركز الزلزال جاء على بعد 144 كيلومترا، جنوب شرقي مدينة "كالاما" شمالي
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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),