Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 06 Jan 2014 07:56 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chile on 06 Jan 2014 07:56 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 1022389
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	16.34 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.7951 , -70.5662
Event Date:	06 Jan 2014 07:56 UTC 06 Jan 2014 02:56 Local
Exposed Population:	227092 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jan 2014 08:29 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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