Overall Green Earthquake in Chile on 25 May 2026 21:52 UTC

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M 6.9 in Chile on 25 May 2026 21:52 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 1542497
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.9M
Depth:	101.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-22.4015 , -68.6229
Event Date:	25 May 2026 21:52 UTC 25 May 2026 17:52 Local
Exposed Population:	160 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at:	25 May 2026 22:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000t04s	Scaled population (raster)	1.53
	C1 shakemap	-1.16
	C2 shakemap	0.54
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.75

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),

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