M 4.8 in Chile on 28 Oct 2015 09:08 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 1070487
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 25.96 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.1758 , -70.4821
Event Date: 28 Oct 2015 09:08 UTC
28 Oct 2015 06:08 Local
Exposed Population:
305040 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2015 09:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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),