Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States on 29 Mar 2014 21:32 UTC

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M 4.6 in United States on 29 Mar 2014 21:32 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 1028523
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	8 Km
Lat/Lon:	33.9159 , -117.913
Event Date:	29 Mar 2014 21:32 UTC 29 Mar 2014 14:32 Local
Exposed Population:	16818060 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Apr 2014 06:34 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
USGS	0		0
at00n37vul	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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Chile jolt ignites fires 4/2/2014 8:14:00 AM.

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Tsunami alert after 8.2 quake in Chile 4/2/2014 8:05:00 AM.

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World › Chile evacuates coast as 8.2 quake sparks tsunami; 5 dead 4/2/2014 8:04:00 AM.

The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that hit northern Chile Tuesday and triggered a tsunami alert killed at least five people, the interior minister said. The victims were four men and a woman who died in the cities of Iquique and Alto Hospicio ei

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