M 4.6 in Chile on 28 Feb 2021 04:41 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 1257828
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 123.16 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.3775 , -68.5092
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 04:41 UTC
28 Feb 2021 01:41 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 05:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000de9t Scaled population (vector) 5.49  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
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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),