M 6 in West Chile Rise on 23 Oct 2020 01:46 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 1240545
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -36.4011 , -97.1352
Event Date: 23 Oct 2020 01:46 UTC
22 Oct 2020 19:46 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Oct 2020 02:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cbug Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),