M 4.9 in Chile on 09 Mar 2022 18:04 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 1313120
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 106.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.1657 , -68.5352
Event Date: 09 Mar 2022 18:04 UTC
09 Mar 2022 15:04 Local
Exposed Population:
160 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 15 Mar 2022 15:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000h3cz Scaled population (vector) 5.19  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.04  
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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),