M 6.3 in Chile on 01 Sep 2020 04:30 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 1232583
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 16.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.0391 , -71.3058
Event Date: 01 Sep 2020 04:30 UTC
01 Sep 2020 00:30 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
About 71000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2020 06:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000bfjx Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.08m  
  C1 shakemap -1.16 Max wave realtime 0.08m  
  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

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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),