M 5.2 in Near Coast Of Central Chile on 19 Feb 2016 05:33 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 1080905
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 30.21 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.5696 , -71.5703
Event Date: 19 Feb 2016 05:33 UTC
19 Feb 2016 02:33 Local
Exposed Population:
547495 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2016 05:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Latest media headlines

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Calgary man killed in avalanche near Golden, B.C. 2/23/2016 2:43:00 AM.

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),