M 5.3 in Chile on 25 Oct 2020 21:17 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 1240897
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.0021 , -70.9604
Event Date: 25 Oct 2020 21:17 UTC
25 Oct 2020 16:17 Local
Exposed Population: 290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Oct 2020 21:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cd2g Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.16  
  C2 shakemap 0.54  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 24 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

2:05 Earthquakes shake north, center and south of ChileWed, 28 Oct 2020 19:33:00 +0100.

28 de octubre de 2020, 14:5 Santiago de Chile, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) A medium-intensity earthquake shook on Wednesday at 11:53, local time, at Coquimbo and Atacama regions, in the north of Chile. The National Seismological Center of the U
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A new technique predicts how earthquakes would affect a city's hospita ... Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:51:00 +0200.

But the risks to life and limb are compounded when earthquakes are the agent of destruction, because they not only kill and maim but can also cripple the hospitals needed to treat survivors. Now, an international research team led by the St
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A new technique predicts how earthquakes would affect a city's hospita ... Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:37:00 +0200.

But the risks to life and limb are compounded when earthquakes are the agent of destruction, because they not only kill and maim but can also cripple the hospitals needed to treat survivors. Now, an international research team led by the St
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A new technique predicts how earthquakes would affect a city's hospita ... Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:31:00 +0200.

An international research team led by the Stanford Blume Center for Earthquake Engineering has developed a methodology to help disaster preparedness officials in large cities make contingency plans on a region-wide basis to make sure that e
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),