Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 11 Mar 2017 03:42 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chile on 11 Mar 2017 03:42 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 1107520
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	42.76 Km
Lat/Lon:	-34.7839 , -71.833
Event Date:	11 Mar 2017 03:42 UTC 11 Mar 2017 00:42 Local
Exposed Population:	1080000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Mar 2017 04:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
us100088d4	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Latest media headlines

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Thousands return home after fleeing Chile forest fire 3/14/2017 7:01:00 AM.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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