M 5.9 in Bolivia on 06 Oct 2019 10:40 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 1189594
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 112.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.9017 , -68.5677
Event Date: 06 Oct 2019 10:40 UTC
06 Oct 2019 07:40 Local
Exposed Population: 150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Oct 2019 10:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70005r9l Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

¿Cómo se quedó Bolivia sin acceso al mar?Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:53:00 +0200.

Los conflictos por los límites marítimos entre Bolivia y Chile comenzaron en 1828, cuando la Constitución chilena estableció que su territorio llegaba hasta el despoblado sector de Atacama, disposición que terminó con la invasión del lugar
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Innovación en gestión de riesgos catastróficos en Bolivia ayudará a re ... Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:36:00 +0200.

. 13/09/2019 - 13:05:16 Perú.- Bolivia es un país expuesto a riesgos causados por desastres naturales como terremotos, incendios e inundaciones, haciendo necesario la adopción de tecnologías innovadoras en la gestión de riesgos catastrófico
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Dorian survivors desperate to evacuate Bahamas as death toll climbs to ... Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:40:00 +0200.

“Some places it’s like nothing happened,” he said. “Other places, it’s like they were hit by a nuclear bomb.” The death toll remained at 44 on Sunday, but the government has warned that the number will be significantly higher when the exten
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Un comandante de la UME de León, nuevo líder del equipo europeo contra ... Fri, 06 Sep 2019 19:48:00 +0200.

Iván Herreras Hernández, comandante de la Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME) de León , ha sido elegido por el Mecanismo Europeo de Protección Civil como líder del equipo europeo desplegado en Bolivia para apoyo en la lucha contra incendios
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),