M 5.2 in Chile on 21 Jul 2018 14:39 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 1151063
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 102.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.3193 , -68.5433
Event Date: 21 Jul 2018 14:39 UTC
21 Jul 2018 10:39 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2018 15:01 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
us2000gaqi Scaled population (vector) 5.48  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 40 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Dos sismos de magnitud 5,8 y 5,9 Richter dejan más de 370 heridos en I ... Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:09:00 +0200.

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Fuerte temblor disparó la alerta en Ciudad de MéxicoThu, 19 Jul 2018 19:12:00 +0200.

Un sismo de 5,9 Richter, con epicentro en el sureño estado de Oaxaca, disparó este jueves la alerta sísmica en Ciudad de México, sin que se reporten víctimas o daños materiales. En su reporte más reciente sobre el temblor, que se produjo a
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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),