M 6.1 in Chile on 06 Mar 2025 16:21 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 1471214
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 93.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.3913 , -69.073
Event Date: 06 Mar 2025 16:21 UTC
06 Mar 2025 13:21 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2025 16:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000px89 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),