M 5.2 in Chile on 21 May 2024 08:21 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 1429679
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 107.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.9146 , -68.5175
Event Date: 21 May 2024 08:21 UTC
21 May 2024 04:21 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 May 2024 08:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n003 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 18 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 2

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Prime Minister allocates unconditional funds for natural disasters: Vi ... 2024-05-25T06:21+0200.

VICE-CHAIRMAN of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win, who is also Chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee-NDMC, addressed the 1/2024 committee meeting yesterday. In his address,
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State Administration Council Vice-Chairman Deputy Prime Minister Vice- ... 2024-05-24T23:24+0200.

Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win, who is also Chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee-NDMC, addressed the 1/2024 committee meeting yesterday. In his address,
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Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Aral , a city with more than 260,000 inhabitants in China , in 127 km (79 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking the
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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),