Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 08 Nov 2016 05:44 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chile on 08 Nov 2016 05:44 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 1097817
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	21.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	-36.6029 , -73.6206
Event Date:	08 Nov 2016 05:44 UTC 08 Nov 2016 00:44 Local
Exposed Population:	1025197 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Nov 2016 06:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000768d	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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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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