M 6.4 in Chile on 13 Dec 2024 23:38 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 1457642
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 109 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.3392 , -70.7315
Event Date: 13 Dec 2024 23:38 UTC
13 Dec 2024 20:38 Local
Exposed Population: 990 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2024 18:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nyqr Scaled population (raster) 0.3  
  C1 shakemap -1.16  
  C2 shakemap 0.54  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.75  
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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),