M 5 in Chile on 02 Mar 2016 09:49 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 1081713
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 32.87 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.6874 , -70.7484
Event Date: 02 Mar 2016 09:49 UTC
02 Mar 2016 04:49 Local
Exposed Population:
456178 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2016 10:09 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),