M 4.5 in Chile on 24 Apr 2017 22:50 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 1111087
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 19.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.1066 , -72.0554
Event Date: 24 Apr 2017 22:50 UTC
24 Apr 2017 17:50 Local
Exposed Population:
1620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2017 00:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ke9 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: 724 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Fuertes sismos sacuden el centro de Chile, sin causar daños ni víctima ... Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:45:00 +0200.

El sismo mayor se registró a las 13H06 locales (16H06 GMT) y tuvo su epicentro a 7 km al sur de Valparaíso; y el otro, de 5,8 de magnitud Richter, ocurrió a las 12H30 locales (15H30 GMT) a 41 km al noreste de la localidad de El Tabo, cercan
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Chile: Dos nuevos sismos sacuden país sureño sin dejar heridosFri, 28 Apr 2017 22:13:00 +0200.

Dos sismos de 6 y 5,8 de magnitud se sintieron este viernes en el centro de Chile, réplicas del terremoto de 6,9 del lunes en la misma zona, sin dejar víctimas ni mayores daños, informó la Oficina Nacional de Emergencias (Onemi). El sismo
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Dos sismos sacuden el centro de Chile sin causar daños o víctimasFri, 28 Apr 2017 22:09:00 +0200.

Dos sismos de 6 y 5,8 grados en la escala de Richter se sintieron este viernes en el centro de Chile, réplicas del terremoto de 6,9 del lunes en la misma zona, sin dejar víctimas ni mayores daños, informó la Oficina Nacional de Emergencias
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Students return home after classes have been suspended after a magnitu ... Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:07:00 +0200.

, Chile April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido. We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our e
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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.
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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),