Overall Green Earthquake in Chile on 16 Apr 2014 03:19 UTC

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M 4.7 in Chile on 16 Apr 2014 03:19 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 1029833
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	12.03 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.1282 , -70.7969
Event Date:	16 Apr 2014 03:19 UTC 15 Apr 2014 22:19 Local
Exposed Population:	225341 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Apr 2014 03:49 UTC

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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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