M 5.9 in Chile on 17 Jul 2020 05:40 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 1226672
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 73.82 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.2353 , -70.1399
Event Date: 17 Jul 2020 05:40 UTC
17 Jul 2020 01:40 Local
Exposed Population: 140000 people in MMI
310000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jul 2020 06:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
us7000aq5p Scaled population (raster) 3.91  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 60 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Con cables de red submarinos planean detectar terremotosMon, 20 Jul 2020 22:44:00 +0200.

Durante años se ha afirmado que no existe una manera de predecir los terremotos . Sin embargo, Google está probando la posibilidad de que, a través de su red de cables submarinos, sea posible detectar los movimientos con el objetivo de prop
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Google tests earthquake, tsunami detection solutions with submarine ca ... Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:08:00 +0200.

The technique works across tens of thousands of kilometres and relies on equipment already present in the existing fiber optic system, where data travels as pulses of light at over two lakh kilometres per second. (Subscribe to our Today's
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Google’s next big project is all about detecting the shakes and making ... Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:42:00 +0200.

Earthquakes could be detected based on spectral signatures and by performing a spectral analysis of Stokers’ parameters to look at frequencies that are typical of earthquakes, they explained. There’s a long tradition of using optical fiber
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),