M 5.6 in Chile on 23 Apr 2017 19:40 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 1110989
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 15.96 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.0437 , -72.1484
Event Date: 23 Apr 2017 19:40 UTC
23 Apr 2017 14:40 Local
Exposed Population: 1260000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Apr 2017 20:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10008k2i 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),