M 4.6 in Chile on 16 Dec 2021 21:28 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 1302034
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -43.3596 , -76.2961
Event Date: 16 Dec 2021 21:28 UTC
16 Dec 2021 16:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 22:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gcxd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),