M 4.5 in Chile on 16 Nov 2015 04:55 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 1072401
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 76.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.774 , -69.8405
Event Date: 16 Nov 2015 04:55 UTC
16 Nov 2015 01:55 Local
Exposed Population:
460246 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2015 05:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),