Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 14 Aug 2014 00:02 UTC

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M 5.3 in Chile on 14 Aug 2014 00:02 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 1037759
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	52.97 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.15 , -69.99
Event Date:	14 Aug 2014 00:02 UTC 13 Aug 2014 20:02 Local
Exposed Population:	240000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Aug 2014 22:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
	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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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