M 4.5 in Chile on 17 May 2017 00:42 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 1113171
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 46.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.0127 , -70.0748
Event Date: 17 May 2017 00:42 UTC
16 May 2017 20:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 May 2017 01:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008sw0 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

Articles: 466 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Ученые будут предсказывать цунами по небуSat, 20 May 2017 22:01:00 +0200.

Американские и итальянские ученые задались целью улучшить точность прогнозирования цунами. Они провели совместные исследования и создали метод, позволяющий судить о вероятности возникновения такого природного явления в реальном времени. Это
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Liberal Journos Uncritically Echo Reports Global Warming Flooded The W ... Sat, 20 May 2017 20:32:00 +0200.

Several media outlets are reporting the world’s largest repository of seeds, acting as a “backstop” against global catastrophe, has been compromised by global warming. Well, the news turned out to be little more than media hype. Here’s why.
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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),