M 5.9 in Chile on 10 Oct 2020 13:14 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 1238826
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.5676 , -112.3045
Event Date: 10 Oct 2020 13:14 UTC
10 Oct 2020 06:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Oct 2020 13:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c7b1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 38 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

The Accuracy of Tsunami PredictionsTue, 13 Oct 2020 22:05:00 +0200.

Residents of coastal towns in Chile remember the catastrophic earthquakes that struck their country in 1960 and 2010, not always for the quakes themselves but for the tsunamis that followed. Those who survived the 9.5-magnitude 1960 quake t
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Unveiling the accuracy of tsunami predictionsMon, 12 Oct 2020 15:50:00 +0200.

Residents of coastal towns in Chile remember the catastrophic earthquakes that struck their country in 1960 and 2010, not always for the quakes themselves but
October 2020 Global Earthquake Report / VolcanoDiscoverySat, 10 Oct 2020 22:24:00 +0200.

Saturday 10 October 2020 18:00 PM | Posted by: Earthquake Monitor. Earthquakes worldwide above 5 degrees during October 2020. Jump to the Daily Reports for October 2020: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 summary: 5 earthquakes 6.0+, 44
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 rattles Buton, South Buton districtsFri, 09 Oct 2020 12:39:00 +0200.

Maps of Buton and South Buton districts hit by a quake of magnitude 5.4 on Friday ANTARA/HO-BMKG Kendari) By 10:30 WIB, the result of monitoring conducted by the BMKG showed no sign of aftershock Kendari, SE Sulawesi (ANTARA) - The Meteor
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),