Overall Green Earthquake in Chile on 02 Apr 2014 00:03 UTC

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M 5.8 in Chile on 02 Apr 2014 00:03 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 1028746
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-19.8457 , -70.8739
Event Date:	02 Apr 2014 00:03 UTC 01 Apr 2014 19:03 Local
Exposed Population:	223412 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Apr 2014 01:29 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
	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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Latest media headlines

Local Students In Chile Share Experiences From Earthquake 4/3/2014 3:04:00 AM.

After Tuesday's powerful earthquake in Chile, NewsChannel 5 checked in with several college students from Nashville who are in the country studying abroad.

Japan ramt af små tsunamier efter skælv i Chile 4/3/2014 3:04:00 AM.

Cirka et døgn efter det voldsomme skælv ud for Chile nåede tsunami-bølger frem til Japan.

Minor tsunami hits Japan after Chile quake 4/3/2014 3:03:00 AM.

Small tsunami waves hit northern Japan early Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean in Chile, officials said.

Sex dog i chilenskt skalv 4/3/2014 3:02:00 AM.

Tusentals chilenare återvände till sina hem sedan de tillbringat natten i bergen efter det kraftiga skalvet, uppmätt till 8,2. Sex personer dog i jordbävningen som utlöste rädslan för en tsunami ända bort till Japan.(TT)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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