M 5.3 in Chile on 13 Jan 2026 07:28 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 1519279
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 118 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.3112 , -68.9485
Event Date: 13 Jan 2026 07:28 UTC
13 Jan 2026 04:28 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2026 08:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rpce 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

5.3-magnitude quake hits Chile-Bolivia Border Region — GFZ 1/13/2026 8:34:00 AM.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua/APP): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Chile-Bolivia Border Region at 0728 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 138.1 km, was initially dete
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Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Chile-Bolivia Border Region -- GFZ 1/13/2026 8:00:00 AM.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Chile-Bolivia Border Region at 0728 GMT....
Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Chile-Bolivia Border Region -- GFZ 1/13/2026 7:51:00 AM.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Chile-Bolivia Border Region at 0728 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 138.1 km, was initially determ
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Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Chile-Bolivia Border Region -- GFZ 1/13/2026 7:41:00 AM.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Chile-Bolivia Border Region at 0728 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 138.1 km, was initially determ
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),