M 4.7 in Chile on 15 Oct 2017 02:54 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 1123884
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 111.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.784 , -68.9567
Event Date: 15 Oct 2017 02:54 UTC
14 Oct 2017 23:54 Local
Exposed Population:
140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2017 05:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ase8 Scaled population (vector) 5.42  
  C1 earthquake 1.44  
  C2 earthquake -1.48  
  Country Vulnerability -0.64  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 502 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Ini Analisa BMKG Soal Gempa di Gorontalo yang Bikin Warga PanikThu, 19 Oct 2017 02:10:00 +0200.

Jakarta - Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) memberikan penjelasan terkait gempa bumi berkekuatan 5,4 skala richter (SR) yang mengguncang wilayah Gorontalo dan Luwuk. Gempa sempat membuat warga berlarian ke luar rumah karen
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Fukushima sake served and savored at U.K. ParliamentThu, 19 Oct 2017 01:46:00 +0200.

LONDON – A reception was held on Tuesday night at London’s Palace of Westminster used for Britain’s Parliament to serve sake made in Fukushima Prefecture and show its recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku r
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Explican ingenieros chilenos colapso de edificios en México Indicaron ... Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:34:00 +0200.

Un grupo de ingenieros de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile entregó un informe sobre las causas del colapso de varios edificios en México tras el terremoto del 19 de septiembre pasado. Los expertos del Departamento de Ingeniería E
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Scientists from four countries will start dropping highly sensitive de ... Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:21:00 +0200.

Scientists from four countries will start dropping highly sensitive devices off the east coast of the North Island on Tuesday to measure movements in the Earth's crust. There will be 100 of the devices, known as seismometers, which will be
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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),