M 5.6 in Chile on 17 Mar 2020 08:12 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 1210374
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 28.54 Km
Lat/Lon: -36.162 , -73.1593
Event Date: 17 Mar 2020 08:12 UTC
17 Mar 2020 03:12 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people in MMI
1120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2020 10:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008gzt Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.16  
  C2 shakemap 0.54  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 122 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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4:21 Cuba en tiempos de solidaridadTue, 17 Mar 2020 21:30:00 +0100.

Sin embargo, mientras la campaña #QuedateEnLaCasa paraliza desde las redes sociales a personas en todo el mundo, la vida continúa su ritmo en La Habana y toda Cuba, donde la gente, aunque también preocupada por la enfermedad, confía en su s
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),