M 4.8 in Chile on 02 Jan 2014 22:39 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 1022090
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 49.02 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.7889 , -71.2245
Event Date: 02 Jan 2014 22:39 UTC
02 Jan 2014 19:39 Local
Exposed Population:
6984480 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2014 23:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),