M 4.9 in Chile on 10 Jan 2022 07:06 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 1305287
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 38.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.7939 , -71.4586
Event Date: 10 Jan 2022 07:06 UTC
10 Jan 2022 04:06 Local
Exposed Population:
550 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2022 08:11 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
us7000gahp Scaled population (vector) 5.7  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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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),