M 5.2 in Chile on 10 Dec 2025 06:38 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 1514341
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 42.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.8659 , -71.3475
Event Date: 10 Dec 2025 06:38 UTC
10 Dec 2025 03:38 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2025 06:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rttx 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),