M 6.3 in Chile on 13 Mar 2026 13:39 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 1528843
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.684 , -71.6269
Event Date: 13 Mar 2026 13:39 UTC
13 Mar 2026 10:39 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI>=V
Inserted at: 13 Mar 2026 13:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
us6000sg0y Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.22m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.22m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. 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.

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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 (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),