Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 11 Dec 2013 23:23 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chile on 11 Dec 2013 23:23 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 1019940
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	51.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	-23.99 , -70.17
Event Date:	11 Dec 2013 23:23 UTC 11 Dec 2013 20:23 Local
Exposed Population:	306984 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Dec 2013 23:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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Latest media headlines

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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