Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Chile on 25 Mar 2012 22:37 UTC

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M 7.1 in Chile on 25 Mar 2012 22:37 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 115731
Earthquake Magnitude:	7.1M
Depth:	34.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	-35.183 , -71.7922
Event Date:	25 Mar 2012 22:37 UTC 25 Mar 2012 19:37 Local
Exposed Population:	1070000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 13:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	1.2		0		1.2
usc0008pwq	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0m
	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 (81), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),

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