M 4.8 in Chile on 29 Dec 2020 19:29 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 1249570
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 107.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -39.3355 , -72.0467
Event Date: 29 Dec 2020 19:29 UTC
29 Dec 2020 16:29 Local
Exposed Population:
780000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2020 20:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d42l Scaled population (vector) 5.93  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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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),