Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 01 Sep 2020 21:09 UTC

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M 6.5 in Chile on 01 Sep 2020 21:09 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 1232691
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.5M
Depth:	14.26 Km
Lat/Lon:	-27.9285 , -71.3937
Event Date:	01 Sep 2020 21:09 UTC 01 Sep 2020 17:09 Local
Exposed Population:	Less than 100 people in MMI VI About 66000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 Sep 2020 21:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0.1		0.1
us7000bg4v	Scaled population (raster)	0	Max wave alert	0.17m
	C1 shakemap	-1.16	Max wave realtime	0.17m
	C2 shakemap	0.54
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.75

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Chile - Earthquake Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:13

Following the seismic activity off the coast of Atacama Region (northern-Chile), a new earthquake of 6.5 M at a depth of 14 km has been reported on 2 September at 21:09 UTC (17:09 local time). The epicentre was approximately 62 km north-west of Huasco City (Huasco Province).
After the main event of 6.8 M, other 16 aftershocks of magnitude greater than 4.5 M occurred in the area. USGS PAGER estimates that up to 1,000 people were exposed to strong shaking.
According to media, there are no reports of any casualties or damage.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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