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Green Earthquake alert in Argentina on 02/06/2012 07:52 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Media reports

Media coverage of this event

Media analysis

News articles per day
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  • Articles: 257
  • Articles about casualties: 6 (2.3%)
  • Articles in last hour: 0

Latest headlines

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The headlines below have been automatically extracted by the Europe Media Monitor.

Mentioning 'Argentina'

6.2-magnitude quake jolts Argentina: CENC
Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:15:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Argentina at 3:52 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of 530 km, was at 22.1 degrees south latitude and 63.6 degrees west longitude.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

Moderate quake hits northern Argentina
Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:15:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

BUENOS AIRES, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted northern Argentina on Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicenter of the tremor, which struck at 4:52 a.m. local time (0752 GMT), was located 54 km northeast of Salta city and 8 km southeast of the southern Bolivian city of Yacuiba at a depth of 519.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency  Hong Kong Observatory 

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Social media analysis

Experimental feature

The information below is extracted by an experimental JRC system to analyze Twitter messages for the occurance of secondary effects for earthquakes and tsunamis. This feature is currently not available for other disaser types.

Twitter reaction

The graph above shows the number of tweets per minute just before and just after the earthquake. The higher the values and the larger the difference between before and after, the more the earthquake was felt by the local population. Note that after 20 to 30 minutes, many tweets will come from areas not near the earthquake. These indicate general interest in this event rather than local impact.

Tweets mentioning secondary effects

The graph above shows tweets for keywords related to common secondary effects. A large difference between tweets counts before and after the event for any of these keywords is a good indication that the secondary effect occurred.