M 4.5 in Chile on 15 Apr 2025 10:29 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 1477349
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 116.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.3732 , -68.8598
Event Date: 15 Apr 2025 10:29 UTC
15 Apr 2025 06:29 Local
Exposed Population:
140 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2025 11:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000q64k Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes northern Chile 4/19/2025 5:15:00 AM.

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit northern Chile near its border with Argentina late Thursday, the Associated Press (AP) reported, citing the US Geological Survey (USGS). There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damages.The quake’s
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Urgent: 5.1-magnitude quake hits Off Coast of Central Chile 4/18/2025 9:16:00 PM.

NEW YORK, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Off Coast of Central Chile at 2025-04-18 16:50:05 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was in
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Urgent: 5.1-magnitude quake hits Off Coast of Central Chile 4/18/2025 9:16:00 PM.

NEW YORK, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Off Coast of Central Chile at 2025-04-18 16:50:05 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was in
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Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Departamento de Lujan, Mendoza Province.. 4/18/2025 8:06:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Chicureo Abajo , a town with 18,000 inhabitants in Chile , in 88 km (55 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In
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Exposed population

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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),