M 6.4 in Argentina on 28 May 2012 05:07 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 117260
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 589.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.0597 , -63.1087
Event Date: 28 May 2012 05:07 UTC
28 May 2012 02:07 Local
Exposed Population:
153909 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2012 05:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000a0z0 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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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),