M 4.5 in Chile on 15 Oct 2025 13:37 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 1505291
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 69.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.0873 , -70.1129
Event Date: 15 Oct 2025 13:37 UTC
15 Oct 2025 10:37 Local
Exposed Population:
190 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2025 13:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rha5 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Seismic-like event, possible earthquake, reported few minutes ago near.. 10/17/2025 6:53:00 AM.

We are receiving unverified early reports of ground shaking possibly caused by seismic activity in or near Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile on 17 Oct 2025 (GMT) at approximately 06:45 GMT. There are no details yet on the magnitude or
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Urgent: 5.8-magnitude quake hits Near Coast of Central Chile -- GFZ 10/15/2025 12:06:00 PM.

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted Near Coast of Central Chile at 1143 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially deter
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Urgent: 5.8-magnitude quake hits Near Coast of Central Chile -- GFZ 10/15/2025 12:06:00 PM.

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted Near Coast of Central Chile at 1143 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German....
Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes near coast of central Chile, GFZ s.. 10/15/2025 11:59:00 AM.

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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),