M 6.1 in Chile on 22 Sep 2015 07:12 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 1066623
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 54.32 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.4786 , -71.196
Event Date: 22 Sep 2015 07:12 UTC
22 Sep 2015 04:12 Local
Exposed Population:
250658 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2015 07:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),