M 4.5 in Chile on 20 Aug 2017 15:13 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 1119682
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 95.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.3232 , -68.8835
Event Date: 20 Aug 2017 15:13 UTC
20 Aug 2017 12:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 21000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2017 16:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000a9xt 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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Fukushima operator faces $5 bn US suit over 2011 disasterThu, 24 Aug 2017 14:40:00 +0200.

Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings said Thursday it faces another US lawsuit over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, with the latest one demanding at least $5 billion in compensation. A total of 157 US residents who were suppo
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Fukushima operator faces $5 bn US suit over 2011 disasterThu, 24 Aug 2017 14:38:00 +0200.

Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings said Thursday it faces another US lawsuit over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, with the latest one demanding at least $5 billion in compensation. A total of 157 US residents who were supporting Fukushim
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),