M 5.2 in Chile on 12 Jan 2017 09:00 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 1103049
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 133.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.1388 , -69.1502
Event Date: 12 Jan 2017 09:00 UTC
12 Jan 2017 05:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 64000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2017 09:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Peru= 4.6; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007ssn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),