M 4.8 in Northern Chile on 30 Jun 2020 21:21 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 1224634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 44.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.5571 , -69.5882
Event Date: 30 Jun 2020 21:21 UTC
30 Jun 2020 17:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 24000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jun 2020 21:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000afgs Scaled population (vector) 4.04  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 104 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake With Magnitude 5.2 Strikes Near Saipan, Northern Mariana Is ... Fri, 03 Jul 2020 06:10:00 +0200.

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 was reported near Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands on Friday morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology. The epicentre of the earthquake was 559 km north (N)
...(more)
Earthquake hits Armenia’s Ararat provinceThu, 02 Jul 2020 09:39:00 +0200.

10:13, 2 July, 2020 YEREVAN, JULY 2, ARMENPRESS. On July 2, at 06:11 local time, the Seismic Protection Survey Seismological Network of the Armenian ministry of emergency situations detected an earthquake at the northern latitude 40.050 and
...(more)
4.9 Degree Earthquake Hits Northern MoroccoWed, 01 Jul 2020 15:13:00 +0200.

Rabat – Morocco’s National Geophysical Institute (ING) recorded an earthquake of 4.9 degrees on the Richter scale in the province of Taounate, 87 kilometers from the city of Fez, on June 30. ING declared that the tremor’s epicenter was in t
...(more)
EQC grant unites earth and social sciences - University of OtagoWed, 01 Jul 2020 03:57:00 +0200.

Southland could be New Zealand’s largest area of incomplete seismic fault information, but University of Otago researchers can now fill in the gaps after receiving a new EQC grant. The $375k grant over three years will connect the tectonic
...(more)

View more news

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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),