M 4.9 in Chile on 11 Aug 2022 00:07 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 1333307
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 43.781 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.7354 , -70.6904
Event Date: 11 Aug 2022 00:07 UTC
10 Aug 2022 20:07 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2022 00:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i9tx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -1.16  
  C2 rapid impact 0.54  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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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),