M 4.6 in Chile on 23 Sep 2017 22:02 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 1122190
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 44.72 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.7421 , -71.616
Event Date: 23 Sep 2017 22:02 UTC
23 Sep 2017 19:02 Local
Exposed Population:
2660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2017 22:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000atq4 Scaled population (vector) 6.24  
  C1 earthquake 1.44  
  C2 earthquake -1.48  
  Country Vulnerability -0.64  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 341 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Lack of disaster data: Experts groping in the darkWed, 27 Sep 2017 21:53:00 +0200.

September 28, 2017, 12:17 pm by Maheesha Mudugamuwa The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) yesterday said, after 13 years since the country experienced the devastating tsunami in 2004, that it had no proper data to evaluate whether the countr
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5 25.369 Visitas Geofísico demuestra fraude de Aroldo Maciel: acierta ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:36:00 +0200.

Hola Chile invitó al ya famoso brasileño Aroldo Maciel , quien predijo dos grandes sismos en el centro y sur de nuestro país. Por supuesto, sus declaraciones no pasaron desapercibidas y de inmediato causaron diversas reacciones en expertos
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El coeficiente corrupción/incompetenciaWed, 27 Sep 2017 20:34:00 +0200.

Claudio Lomnitz, La Jornada. Pasé el terremoto muy lejos de México, siguiendo las noticias. Preocupado. Compadeciendo en el sentido preciso de esa palabra, sufriendo con otros. Imaginando. Cómo será mandarle un abrazo a un país entero? No l
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¿Qué hay de nuevo con la ley de etiquetado de celulares?Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:11:00 +0200.

El pasado sábado comenzó a operar la Ley de Homologación aplicada por la Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel). La nueva normativa se implementó con el fin de obligar a las empresas a entregar información útil a los usuarios a través
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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),