M 4.5 in Chile on 12 Jun 2024 22:26 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 1432862
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 49.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.9937 , -71.3121
Event Date: 12 Jun 2024 22:26 UTC
12 Jun 2024 18:26 Local
Exposed Population:
560 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 12 Jun 2024 22:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ms1a Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 1

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Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - 8.1 km southeast of Calama, El Loa, Ant ... 2024-06-15T22:46+0200.

Based on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 812 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.42 quakes per year (or 1 q
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Moderate mag. 4.3 earthquake - 69 km northeast of Calama, El Loa, Anto ... 2024-06-15T10:43+0200.

Based on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 1,400 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.11 quakes per year (or 1
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),