M 4.7 in Chile on 10 Jan 2021 08:15 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 1250995
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 41.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -34.6771 , -71.8167
Event Date: 10 Jan 2021 08:15 UTC
10 Jan 2021 05:15 Local
Exposed Population:
1170000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2021 08:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d77g Scaled population (vector) 5.84  
  C1 earthquake 1.44  
  C2 earthquake -1.48  
  Country Vulnerability -0.64  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),