Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile from 29 Sep 2019 15:57 UTC to 15:57

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M 6.6 in Chile from 29 Sep 2019 15:57 UTC to 15:57

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1188816
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-35.5 , -73.1
Event Date:	29 Sep 2019 15:57 UTC 29 Sep 2019 10:57 Local
Exposed Population:	120000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Sep 2019 16:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NTWC	0		0.3		0.3
at00pyloci	Scaled population (vector)	4.56	Max wave alert	0.31m
	C1 earthquake	1.44	Max wave realtime	0.31m
	C2 earthquake	-1.48
	Country Vulnerability	-0.64
	INFORM_normalised	0.75

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Chile - Earthquake (ECHO 30 Sep 2019)Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:08

An earthquake of 6.8 M at a depth of 11 km struck off the coast of Maule Region, central Chile on 29 September at 15.57 UTC. The epicentre was approximately 70 km west-southwest of Constitución City (Talca Province), and 63 km north-west of Pelluhue Town (Cauquenes Province).
A series of aftershocks of magnitude between 4.0 M and 5.3 M were recorded but no tsunami warning was issued. Up to 52,000 people were exposed to strong shaking.
According to media reports, as of 30 September, there are no reports of casualties or damage.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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