M 5.6 in Chile on 21 Nov 2020 02:11 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 1244532
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 53.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.9017 , -71.5046
Event Date: 21 Nov 2020 02:11 UTC
20 Nov 2020 23:11 Local
Exposed Population: About 21000 people in MMI
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2020 02:33 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
us6000cr45 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 74 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits off coast of central ChileSun, 22 Nov 2020 09:11:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off coast of central Chile, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said on Sunday. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), it added. We use cookies limited for the aims specified in the
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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),