M 4.5 in Chile on 27 Apr 2024 14:49 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 1426197
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 147.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.5652 , -68.3668
Event Date: 27 Apr 2024 14:49 UTC
27 Apr 2024 10:49 Local
Exposed Population:
150 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2024 15:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mubg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 18 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 1

Weak mag. 3.9 earthquake - Los Lagos, Chile, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 ... 2024-05-01T14:30+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Puerto Montt , a city with more than 160,000 inhabitants in Chile , in 33 km (21 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shak
...(more)
Light mag. 4.5 earthquake - 52 km southeast of Pica, Tamarugal, Tarapa ... 2024-05-01T11:12+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Pica , a town with 9,300 inhabitants in Chile , in 66 km (41 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several s
...(more)
Q1 Global Insured Natural Disaster Losses Driven by Severe Convective ... 2024-05-01T08:54+0200.

The global insured losses of $17 billion during Q1 were close to the average since 2000 ($16 billion) and higher than the median of $12 billion for that period. However, Aon said, it is a significant drop from the “exceptional losses” seen
...(more)
Light mag. 4.1 earthquake - 78 km east of San Pedro de Atacama, El Loa ... 2024-05-01T07:21+0200.

Based on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 330 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.25 quakes per year (or 1 q
...(more)

View more news

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),