M 5.9 in Chile on 23 Apr 2017 02:36 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 1110909
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 9.78 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.0393 , -72.085
Event Date: 23 Apr 2017 02:36 UTC
22 Apr 2017 21:36 Local
Exposed Population: 1330000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Apr 2017 02:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us10008jvr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Tokyo. JAPAN'S Reconstruction Minister, Masahiro Imamura, resigned, a day after apologising for remarks he made about the country's devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Mr Imamura, who oversaw post-disaster reconstruction efforts in nor
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LDP exec blames media for minister’s resignation over gaffeThu, 27 Apr 2017 00:04:00 +0200.

Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, criticized the media on Wednesday, apparently in reference to reports of the recent resignation of postdisaster reconstruction minister Masahiro Imamura over a gaffe
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Ukraine, Belarus mark Chernobyl anniversary The leaders of Ukraine and ... Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:42:00 +0200.

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),