M 6 in Northern East Pacfic Rise on 18 Jan 2019 16:40 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 1168425
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.2699 , -103.466
Event Date: 18 Jan 2019 16:40 UTC
18 Jan 2019 09:40 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2019 16:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j5sx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 234 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Más de 60 réplicas se han registrado en norte de Chile tras fuerte sis ... Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:27:00 +0100.

Santiago de Chile, 20 ene (EFE). - Más de 60 réplicas se han registrado en las últimas horas en el norte de Chile tras el sismo de magnitud 6,7 en la escala Richter que este sábado dejó dos víctimas fatales. La mayoría de las réplicas -una
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Jamaica to enforce disaster risk management actMon, 21 Jan 2019 15:12:00 +0100.

Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says the Andrew Holness led administration will be exercising provisions of the Disaster Risk Management Act, in the interest of public safety. The Act is intended to empower designated personnel,
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Sismo en norte de Chile deja dos muertos y provoca masiva evacuaciónMon, 21 Jan 2019 05:25:00 +0100.

Santiago. El Centro Sismológico Nacional y la Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior ( ONEMI ) informaron que el epicentro se localizó 32 kilómetros al noroeste del balneario de Tongoy, en el centro-norte de Chile. El mo
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Magnitude 6.7 quake hits Chile's coast; no reports of damageMon, 21 Jan 2019 04:37:00 +0100.

SANTIAGO, Chile — A 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook cities and towns on Chile's northern coast late Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of damages. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was 15.6 kilometres (9.7 mile
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),