M 4.6 in Argentina on 09 Jan 2016 18:47 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 1078251
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 94.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.7546 , -68.1625
Event Date: 09 Jan 2016 18:47 UTC
09 Jan 2016 15:47 Local
Exposed Population:
662307 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2016 23:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),