M 5.6 in Chile on 12 Jun 2017 02:43 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 1114767
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 26.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.5048 , -71.7619
Event Date: 12 Jun 2017 02:43 UTC
11 Jun 2017 22:43 Local
Exposed Population: 130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jun 2017 03:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us20009lwp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Revocan procesamiento de mandos de Aviación chilena por accidente de 2.. 6/16/2017 2:13:00 AM.

Santiago de Chile, 15 jun (EFE).- La justicia militar chilena revocó hoy en fallo unánime los procesamientos por cuasidelito de homicidio para cuatro altos mandos de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACH) en relación a un accidente aéreo que causó
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Other views: Trying to solve the PERS tsunami 6/16/2017 1:51:00 AM.

SB 1068, a bill aimed at easing public employers’ crippling pension costs, accomplishes the rare feat of being measly and consequential at the same time. Measly, in that the proposed changes would barely move the needle in addressing the es
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Revocan procesamiento de mandos de Aviación chilena por accidente de 2.. 6/16/2017 1:37:00 AM.

La justicia militar chilena revocó hoy en fallo unánime los procesamientos por cuasidelito de homicidio para cuatro altos mandos de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACH) en relación a un accidente aéreo que causó la muerte de 21 personas en septi
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Revocan procesamiento de mandos de Aviación chilena por accidente de ... 6/16/2017 1:29:00 AM.

La justicia militar chilena revocó hoy en fallo unánime los procesamientos por cuasidelito de homicidio para cuatro altos mandos de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACH) en relación a un accidente aéreo que causó la muerte de 21 personas en septi
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),