Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 23 Apr 2017 01:49 UTC

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M 4.5 in Chile on 23 Apr 2017 01:49 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 1110905
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	24.83 Km
Lat/Lon:	-33.0129 , -72.0114
Event Date:	23 Apr 2017 01:49 UTC 22 Apr 2017 20:49 Local
Exposed Population:	1540000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Apr 2017 02:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008jv4	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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