Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 20 Mar 2014 18:41 UTC

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M 5.4 in Chile on 20 Mar 2014 18:41 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 1027960
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	89.94 Km
Lat/Lon:	-24.0274 , -68.962
Event Date:	20 Mar 2014 18:41 UTC 20 Mar 2014 15:41 Local
Exposed Population:	About 11386 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Mar 2014 19:18 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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