M 6.2 in Chile on 27 Jul 2022 18:58 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 1332331
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 98.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.1733 , -68.4714
Event Date: 27 Jul 2022 18:58 UTC
27 Jul 2022 14:58 Local
Exposed Population: 140000 people in MMI
150 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2022 19:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i5zi Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.16  
  C2 shakemap 0.54  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 113 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),