M 4.9 in Chile on 15 Oct 2017 10:59 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 1123900
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.2248 , -72.8731
Event Date: 15 Oct 2017 10:59 UTC
15 Oct 2017 05:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2017 11:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ash3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 486 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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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),