Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 08 Jan 2016 01:12 UTC

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M 5.6 in Chile on 08 Jan 2016 01:12 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 1078136
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	30.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-30.6613 , -71.6762
Event Date:	08 Jan 2016 01:12 UTC 07 Jan 2016 22:12 Local
Exposed Population:	530000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Jan 2016 01:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
	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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