M 4.5 in Chile on 21 Nov 2012 22:51 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 121004
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 9.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.9784 , -72.1828
Event Date: 21 Nov 2012 22:51 UTC
21 Nov 2012 19:51 Local
Exposed Population:
360000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2012 23:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000dwl1 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 169 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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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.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),