Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 16 Sep 2015 23:16 UTC

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M 6.2 in Chile on 16 Sep 2015 23:16 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 1065798
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.2M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-31.5887 , -71.9093
Event Date:	16 Sep 2015 23:16 UTC 16 Sep 2015 18:16 Local
Exposed Population:	About 98450 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Sep 2015 23:39 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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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