Overall Green Earthquake alert in Southern East Pacific Rise on 16 Feb 2016 23:48 UTC

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M 6 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 16 Feb 2016 23:48 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 1080765
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-55.8203 , -125.1795
Event Date:	16 Feb 2016 23:48 UTC 16 Feb 2016 15:48 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Feb 2016 15:51 UTC

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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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