M 4.8 in Chile on 27 May 2022 05:37 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 1324183
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 75.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.4069 , -70.4214
Event Date: 27 May 2022 05:37 UTC
27 May 2022 01:37 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2022 05:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hczg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 84 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

UC Irvine News Brief: Roxane Cohen Silver2022-05-31T03:30+0200.

Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychology & social behavior, is in Chile this week to assist in earthquake recovery efforts and oversee the design of psychological interventions. An expert on trauma and coping, she was invited by the Uni
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Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake - OFFSHORE ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE, on Monday, ... 2022-05-30T03:16+0200.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported a magnitude 4.7 quake in Chile near Tocopilla, Antofagasta, only 10 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the evening on Sunday, May 29th, 2022, at 8:59 pm local time at a moderat
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Adaptive capacity for social and environmental change : The role of ne ... 2022-05-29T15:32+0200.

Sammanfattning: World’s small-scale fisheries (SSF) face permanent and increasing external changes and shocks that challenge their viability and potential as an engine of human sustainable development. It is broadly assumed and expected tha
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magnitude and damage. Is there a risk of tsunami? What do we know2022-05-28T03:37+0200.

Double seismic event today 27 May: the earth shook a East Timor and in Peru . Here’s what we know about it. Earthquake in East Timor: excluding a tsunami, people leave the capital Dili. Earthquake of magnitude 6.4 a East Timor. It occurred
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),