Overall Green Earthquake in Chile on 21 Jun 2012 09:24 UTC

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M 4.6 in Chile on 21 Jun 2012 09:24 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 117683
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	9.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-35.5483 , -72.1826
Event Date:	21 Jun 2012 09:24 UTC 21 Jun 2012 05:24 Local
Exposed Population:	880000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Jun 2012 09:58 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000albh	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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