M 4.6 in Chile on 06 May 2024 01:58 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 1427486
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 53 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.6498 , -71.3496
Event Date: 06 May 2024 01:58 UTC
05 May 2024 21:58 Local
Exposed Population:
630 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 06 May 2024 03:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwlu 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Taltal , a town with 10,000 inhabitants in Chile , in 104 km (65 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In th
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Just 17 minutes ago, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Ollagüe, Provincia de El Loa, Antofagasta, Chile. The tremor was recorded early morning on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024, at 6:00 am local time, at an intermediate depth of 103.7 km bel
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Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - 125 km northeast of Calama, El Loa, Ant ... 2024-05-08T12:20+0200.

8 May 10:06 UTC First to report: GFZ after 5 minutes. 8 May 10:07 : Magnitude recalculated from 5.2 to 5.1. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 127.6 to 114.2 km (from 79 to 71 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 11 km (7 mi) towards E. 8 M
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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),