M 4.8 in Chile on 03 Feb 2024 00:48 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 1413653
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 90.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.751 , -70.6263
Event Date: 03 Feb 2024 00:48 UTC
02 Feb 2024 21:48 Local
Exposed Population:
8.3 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 03 Feb 2024 21:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lwkh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 439 | About casualties: 161 | Last hour: 2

Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera Killed In Helicopter Acciden ... 2024-02-07T00:15+0100.

President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera sits in 10 Downing street for talks with Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on September 10, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas – WPA Pool / Getty Images) OAN’s James Meyers 2:56 P
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Bolivia registers 27 deaths and more than 10,000 families affected by ... 2024-02-06T23:24+0100.

In minutes everything around was an immense bonfire. “My neighbors were burned,” says Abraham Mardones, who miraculously managed to flee Villa Independencia, the epicenter of the deadliest forest fires in Chile’s memory. He says that he had
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The UN agency says Chile's wildfires are likely to be the deadliest on ... 2024-02-06T21:51+0100.

Devastating wildfires sweeping through large parts of Chile are believed to be the country's deadliest on record, according to the UN disaster agency, with firefighters struggling to contain more than 160 blazes days after they burned. The
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Sebastián Piñera, former president of Chile, dies in a helicopter acci ... 2024-02-06T21:34+0100.

Sebastián Piñera, former president of Chile, died at the age of 74 after suffering a helicopter accident this Tuesday, February 6. According to the former president's press office, he was the only fatality from the ship that fell and submer
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),