M 4.8 in Chile on 19 Jan 2022 21:27 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 1306670
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 6.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.4117 , -74.2157
Event Date: 19 Jan 2022 21:27 UTC
19 Jan 2022 16:27 Local
Exposed Population:
170 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2022 23:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gdbn Scaled population (vector) 4.62  
  C1 earthquake 1.44  
  C2 earthquake -1.48  
  Country Vulnerability -0.64  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 393 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

News Tonga disasters ‘heartbreaking’ to Robinvale community, says Swan ... 2022-01-23T20:51+0100.

ROBINVALE'S Tongan community has been "horrifically" impacted by the eruption of an underground volcano and subsequent tsunami on the Pacific nation. Power has been restored but communication in and out of the country remains difficult afte
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Tonga govt says nearly 85% of population impacted by volcano and tsuna ... 2022-01-23T20:11+0100.

Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga faces a long road to recovery, with most of the population affected by the violent eruption and tsunami that followed, and many areas still scrambling to restore basic necessities. Almost 85 percent of the country'
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Tonga struggles with ash, psychological trauma after eruption and tsun ... 2022-01-23T19:50+0100.

Families have stopped children playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with ash and the psychological fallout of last week’s volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and residents say. Communication with the outside world remained diff
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Why the Tonga volcano cued tsunami warnings for the North American Pac ... 2022-01-23T19:33+0100.

- The Conversation) On Jan. 15, a tsunami warning went out to residents of British Columbia and the west coast of the United States. The warning was issued after the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in the Southwes
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),