Overall Green Earthquake in Chile on 06 Jan 2014 03:59 UTC

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M 5.1 in Chile on 06 Jan 2014 03:59 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 1022370
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	21.47 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.7643 , -70.6303
Event Date:	06 Jan 2014 03:59 UTC 05 Jan 2014 22:59 Local
Exposed Population:	225629 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jan 2014 04:20 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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