M 4.7 in Chile on 03 Apr 2016 06:02 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 1083612
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 90.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.9424 , -69.9921
Event Date: 03 Apr 2016 06:02 UTC
03 Apr 2016 03:02 Local
Exposed Population:
About 60409 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2016 06:24 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),