M 4.6 in Chile on 13 Jan 2018 14:19 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 1130875
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 129.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.4458 , -68.8408
Event Date: 13 Jan 2018 14:19 UTC
13 Jan 2018 11:19 Local
Exposed Population:
About 21000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2018 14:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cjag Scaled population (vector) 3.83  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
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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),