M 5.1 in Chile on 05 Dec 2021 21:51 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 1300163
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 94.67 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.2773 , -68.9071
Event Date: 05 Dec 2021 21:51 UTC
05 Dec 2021 18:51 Local
Exposed Population:
7 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2021 17:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g9c2 Scaled population (vector) 4.25  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Previously unrecorded Chilean tsunami identified 12/9/2021 7:50:00 PM.

A large earthquake off the coast of south-central Chile in 1737 may have caused a substantial tsunami that was absent from historical records, according to new research published in the Nature journal, Communications Earth & Environment tod
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New research identifies previously unrecorded tsunami in Chile 12/9/2021 7:50:00 PM.

Lead researcher, Dr Emma Hocking, from Northumbria University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences said: “Tsunami hazard assessment is often based on historic records of flooding along particular coastlines, with the frequen
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Previously unrecorded Chilean tsunami identified 12/9/2021 7:35:00 PM.

Historical records are used to predict how often tsunamis are likely to occur in a region in the future. Until now, it was previously believed that tsunami-causing earthquakes had occurred in this area of Chile three times since the 1570s,
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Previously unrecorded Chilean tsunami identified 12/9/2021 5:00:00 PM.

by Northumbria University Aerial view of the Chaihuín tidal marsh – site of the discovery of new geological evidence for a previously unreported historical tsunami. Credit: Diego Aedo. A large earthquake off the coast of south-central Ch
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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),