M 4.5 in Chile on 09 Jan 2017 00:40 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 1102825
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -29.6563 , -71.3678
Event Date: 09 Jan 2017 00:40 UTC
08 Jan 2017 21:40 Local
Exposed Population:
490000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2017 01:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007s2a Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),