M 4.5 in Chile on 21 Dec 2021 14:46 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 1302758
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 39.41 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.6993 , -71.3523
Event Date: 21 Dec 2021 14:46 UTC
21 Dec 2021 11:46 Local
Exposed Population:
650 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Dec 2021 15:13 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
us6000ge5v Scaled population (vector) 6.03  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),