M 5.5 in Chile on 23 Feb 2023 10:23 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 1361491
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 26.783 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.9235 , -73.2001
Event Date: 23 Feb 2023 10:23 UTC
23 Feb 2023 05:23 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2023 10:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000jqzy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),