M 5.7 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 29 Dec 2017 21:20 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 1129772
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -53.1102 , -117.3429
Event Date: 29 Dec 2017 21:20 UTC
29 Dec 2017 13:20 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2017 21:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000bxw9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),