M 4.6 in Chile on 11 May 2025 06:43 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 1481297
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 52.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.7662 , -71.4705
Event Date: 11 May 2025 06:43 UTC
11 May 2025 02:43 Local
Exposed Population:
8.9 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 11 May 2025 07:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pyiu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),