M 5.1 in Chile on 01 Dec 2021 04:39 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 1299473
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 15.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.9268 , -73.6241
Event Date: 01 Dec 2021 04:39 UTC
01 Dec 2021 01:39 Local
Exposed Population:
380 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 01 Dec 2021 23:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g836 Scaled population (vector) 5.48  
  C1 earthquake 1.44  
  C2 earthquake -1.48  
  Country Vulnerability -0.64  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),