M 5.8 in Chile on 18 Sep 2017 13:46 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 1121742
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.82 , -72.147
Event Date: 18 Sep 2017 13:46 UTC
18 Sep 2017 08:46 Local
Exposed Population: About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2017 15:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000apwd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1297 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

Court: Utility, not gov't responsible for Fukushima disasterFri, 22 Sep 2017 13:41:00 +0200.

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that a utility, not the government, should pay compensation to dozens of former residents of Fukushima for losses to their livelihood caused by meltdowns at a nuclear plant after a massive earthquake
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Court: Utility, not gov't responsible for Fukushima disasterFri, 22 Sep 2017 13:38:00 +0200.

A Japanese court has ruled that a utility, not the government, should pay compensation to dozens of former residents of Fukushima for losses to their livelihood caused by meltdowns at a nuclear plant after a massive earthquake and tsunami i
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Tepco again ordered to pay damages over nuclear disaster but claims ag ... Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:32:00 +0200.

CHIBA – Chiba District Court on Friday ordered Tokyo Electric to pay damages over the Fukushima nuclear disaster but dismissed claims against the state. It is the second time a court has ruled against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings I
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Court: Utility, not gov't responsible for Fukushima disasterFri, 22 Sep 2017 13:28:00 +0200.

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that a utility, not the government, should pay compensation to dozens of former residents of Fukushima for losses to their livelihood caused by meltdowns at a nuclear plant after a massive earthquake
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),