M 4.8 in Chile on 24 Apr 2017 23:54 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 1111096
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 17.76 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.2664 , -71.973
Event Date: 24 Apr 2017 23:54 UTC
24 Apr 2017 20:54 Local
Exposed Population:
1520000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2017 00:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10008kfg 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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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),