Overall Green Earthquake in Chile on 02 Mar 2014 16:18 UTC

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M 5 in Chile on 02 Mar 2014 16:18 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 1026904
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	28.17 Km
Lat/Lon:	-45.8331 , -76.5038
Event Date:	02 Mar 2014 16:18 UTC 02 Mar 2014 11:18 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Mar 2014 16:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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