M 4.6 in Chile on 15 May 2015 06:05 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 1054904
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 52.14 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.5387 , -71.1993
Event Date: 15 May 2015 06:05 UTC
15 May 2015 03:05 Local
Exposed Population:
413654 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2015 06:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Evidence of potentially massive quakes found under central New Zealand 5/19/2015 6:05:00 AM.

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La propietaria de Fukushima negocia la venta de reservas de uranio 5/19/2015 5:47:00 AM.

Tokio, 19 may (EFE).- La propietaria de la accidentada central de Fukushima Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), está negociando la venta de parte de sus reservas de combustible nuclear para abaratar costes durante el actual ejercicio, según confi
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[Video] "La Roca" le mandó un emotivo saludo a Bomberos de Chile 5/19/2015 12:36:00 AM.

. Valoró que los chicos buenos son los primeros en responder ante los desastres naturales. Previo al estreno en nuestro país de la película "La falla de San Andrés", el actor y ex capo de la lucha libre, Dwayne "La Roca" Johnson, les mandó
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VIDEO "La Roca" envía saludo a los bomberos de Chile 5/18/2015 9:38:00 PM.

El famoso actor y luchador les agradeció "por estar en el frente de la batalla cuando ocurre un desastre natural". | Mayo 18 de 2015. El famoso actor y luchador estadounidense Dwayne Johnson, "La Roca", envió un saludo a los bomberos chile
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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