M 6.8 in Argentina on 20 Jan 2023 22:09 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 1355203
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 610.671 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.7209 , -63.0394
Event Date: 20 Jan 2023 22:09 UTC
20 Jan 2023 19:09 Local
Exposed Population: 90 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2023 22:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j5x2 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),