Overall Green Earthquake alert in Near Coast Of Central Chile on 23 Mar 2016 00:38 UTC

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M 4.8 in Near Coast Of Central Chile on 23 Mar 2016 00:38 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 1083006
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	45.54 Km
Lat/Lon:	-31.7701 , -71.4228
Event Date:	23 Mar 2016 00:38 UTC 22 Mar 2016 21:38 Local
Exposed Population:	217597 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Mar 2016 00:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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