Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 21 Feb 2017 13:01 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chile on 21 Feb 2017 13:01 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 1106094
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-30.8631 , -71.8739
Event Date:	21 Feb 2017 13:01 UTC 21 Feb 2017 10:01 Local
Exposed Population:	140000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Feb 2017 15:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008l3u	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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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