M 5 in Chile on 16 Oct 2017 19:29 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 1124006
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 21.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.3931 , -74.0523
Event Date: 16 Oct 2017 19:29 UTC
16 Oct 2017 14:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2017 19:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000asyw 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: 466 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Efemérides: Ocurrió un día como hoy 20 de octubreFri, 20 Oct 2017 15:17:00 +0200.

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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),