M 4.9 in Chile on 28 Apr 2024 19:31 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 1426399
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 116.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6129 , -68.8193
Event Date: 28 Apr 2024 19:31 UTC
28 Apr 2024 15:31 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 28 Apr 2024 19:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000muq7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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: 19 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Light mag. 4.0 earthquake - Iquique, 50 km southeast of Pica, Tamaruga ... 2024-05-02T01:17+0200.

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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),