M 6.8 in Chile on 01 Sep 2020 04:09 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 1232581
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 23 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.9693 , -71.3047
Event Date: 01 Sep 2020 04:09 UTC
01 Sep 2020 00:09 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VII
About 70000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Sep 2020 21:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
us7000bfjr Scaled population (raster) 1.57 Max wave alert 0.21m  
  C1 shakemap -1.16 Max wave realtime 0.21m  
  C2 shakemap 0.54      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.75      
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Chile - Earthquakes (ECHO 01 Sep 2020)Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:01

  • Two earthquakes of 6.8 M and 6.3 M at a depth of 23 and 17 km occurred off the coast of Atacama Region (northern-Chile) on 1 September at 04:09 UTC (00:09 local time) and 04:30 UTC. The epicentre of the 6.8 M was approximately 50 km north-west of Huasco City (Huasco Province).
  • No tsunami warning was issued by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA), in charge of this service in Chile.
  • Several aftershocks of magnitude up to 5.5 M have been reported. USGS PAGER estimates that up to 1,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking and up to 17,000 to strong shaking.
  • According to media, there are no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.
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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 (92), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),