Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 22 Apr 2017 22:46 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chile on 22 Apr 2017 22:46 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 1110894
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	-32.9719 , -72.1389
Event Date:	22 Apr 2017 22:46 UTC 22 Apr 2017 17:46 Local
Exposed Population:	1310000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Apr 2017 23:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
us10008juc	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Latest media headlines

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10:20:54 | Chile ha sufrido 18 grandes terremotos en los últimos 200 a.. 4/26/2017 4:45:00 PM.

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Chile ha sufrido 18 grandes terremotos en los últimos 200 años 4/26/2017 2:45:00 PM.

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Chile a la espera de un gran terremoto 4/26/2017 12:19:00 PM.

Sergio Barrientos, director del Centro Sismológico Nacional, afirmó ayer que Chile podría ser remecido por terremotos de 7 a 7,5 grados sin previo aviso, lo que ocasionaría daños significativos. Barrientos abordó el tema con la prensa tras

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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),

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