M 4.9 in Chile on 12 Jun 2017 11:27 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 1114797
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 24.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.0777 , -71.8717
Event Date: 12 Jun 2017 11:27 UTC
12 Jun 2017 07:27 Local
Exposed Population:
1610000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jun 2017 11:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us20009lxk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 774 | About casualties: 62 | Last hour: 0

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Ti inoltro tutta la mia bontàFri, 16 Jun 2017 10:45:00 +0200.

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Evaded taxes jumps to ¥16.1 billion tally in fiscal 2016, probe findsFri, 16 Jun 2017 10:44:00 +0200.

Compulsory probes found tax evasion in fiscal 2016 totaled ¥16.1 billion, including penalties, up ¥2.3 billion from the previous year, the National Tax Agency said Thursday. In the year ended in March, the number of tax evasion cases handle
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Indonesia donates to drought fundFri, 16 Jun 2017 10:34:00 +0200.

WINDHOEK – The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia yesterday donated N$80 000 in support of the national drough relief effort. The money will be used to assist thousands of vulnerable people in Namibia who are food insecure as a result of
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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),