M 6.1 in Chile on 25 Jul 2016 17:26 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 1090624
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 71.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.0986 , -70.4954
Event Date: 25 Jul 2016 17:26 UTC
25 Jul 2016 13:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44180 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jul 2016 19:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20006hi2 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.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 561 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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