Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chile on 27 May 2022 05:37 UTC

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M 4.8 in Chile on 27 May 2022 05:37 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 1324183
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	75.94 Km
Lat/Lon:	-26.4069 , -70.4214
Event Date:	27 May 2022 05:37 UTC 27 May 2022 01:37 Local
Exposed Population:	40 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	27 May 2022 05:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3 (Chile)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000hczg	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	-0.59
	C2 rapid impact	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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