Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 15 Mar 2014 14:46 UTC

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M 5.4 in Chile on 15 Mar 2014 14:46 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 1027609
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	44.76 Km
Lat/Lon:	-34.7261 , -71.7401
Event Date:	15 Mar 2014 14:46 UTC 15 Mar 2014 11:46 Local
Exposed Population:	1190918 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Mar 2014 15:08 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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