M 5.5 Off-shore on 01 Sep 2019 02:34 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 1188004
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -49.9069 , -114.9431
Event Date: 01 Sep 2019 02:34 UTC
31 Aug 2019 18:34 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2019 02:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70005arj 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: 653 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake study casts doubt on early warnings but hints at improved f ... Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:26:00 +0200.

Since the 1980s seismologists -- earthquake researchers -- have wondered how feasible it might be to predict how an earthquake will behave given some information about its initial conditions. In particular whether you can tell the eventual
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Frequent observations of identical onsets of large and small earthquak ... Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:18:00 +0200.

The location of these events shows that high CC max values occurred along the coastline at depths greater than 40 km (Fig. 1 ). This may simply be due to the less attenuated waveforms at these stations from nearby deep events. By contrast,
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Hurricane Dorian: Ocala group flying supplies to the BahamasWed, 04 Sep 2019 23:41:00 +0200.

Crossroads Alliance & Ministries will use private aircraft to ferry tons of humanitarian aid to the stricken islands. With Marion County spared the lashing thought imminent from Hurricane Dorian, the county now becomes an epicenter for the
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Autoridades, encabezadas por Intendente Regional de O’Higgins, invitan ... Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:23:00 +0200.

04/09/2019 | 17:13 | Lib. Gral Bernardo O’Higgins. El ejercicio que forma parte del programa “Chile Preparado” de ONEMI, se realizará el 10 de octubre y se espera movilizar cerca de 970 establecimientos educacionales de todos los niveles ed
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),