M 5 in Chile on 17 Apr 2018 13:46 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 1140581
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 104.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.424 , -68.878
Event Date: 17 Apr 2018 13:46 UTC
17 Apr 2018 10:46 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2018 14:04 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
us2000e1hq Scaled population (vector) 3.74  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),