Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 24 Feb 2016 17:02 UTC

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M 4.6 in Chile on 24 Feb 2016 17:02 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 1081277
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	22.96 Km
Lat/Lon:	-29.9554 , -71.686
Event Date:	24 Feb 2016 17:02 UTC 24 Feb 2016 12:02 Local
Exposed Population:	500628 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Feb 2016 18:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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