M 4.5 in Chile on 15 Sep 2020 05:11 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 1235461
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 23 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.8843 , -71.4478
Event Date: 15 Sep 2020 05:11 UTC
15 Sep 2020 00:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 27000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2020 05:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bned Scaled population (vector) 4.01  
  C1 earthquake 1.44  
  C2 earthquake -1.48  
  Country Vulnerability -0.64  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 192 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

A 5 años del sismo Minvu define plan urbano y de vivienda con medidas ... Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:47:00 +0200.

De manera de prevenir y preparar a la Región de Coquimbo para otro evento sísmico como el vivido el 16 de septiembre de 2015, es que el Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo generó un plan maestro que incluyen obras de espacios públicos y de v
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Columna de sismología: El antes y después de Illapel, a cinco años del ... Wed, 16 Sep 2020 21:15:00 +0200.

Las autoridades estaban vestidas, la comida estaba en las mesas, y las manos sujetaban firmemente los tragos. Todos estaban listos para inaugurar la fiesta de la Pampilla de forma oficial. La Tierra, también . Ella se venía preparando para
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Belt of Fire, the place where most earthquakes are born in the worldWed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another)
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Chilean quake, following Haiti emergency, may strain resources of aid ... Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:41:00 +0200.

A number of aid agencies have expressed concern that ongoing rebuilding efforts in Haiti may affect their ability to respond to last month’s earthquake in Chile. Even before the earthquake, the US Agency for International Development last m
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),