M 5.6 in Chile on 06 Apr 2014 14:06 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 1029072
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 8.69 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.4359 , -71.0573
Event Date: 06 Apr 2014 14:06 UTC
06 Apr 2014 09:06 Local
Exposed Population:
197041 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Apr 2014 14:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),