M 5.5 in Argentina on 23 Jan 2020 21:11 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 1203093
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 560.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.0186 , -63.3931
Event Date: 23 Jan 2020 21:11 UTC
23 Jan 2020 18:11 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2020 21:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007e4x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 19 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Honrar a los muertos y atender a los vivosFri, 24 Jan 2020 22:55:00 +0100.

El lunes 27 se cumplirán 75 años desde el helado día de enero de 1945 en que el Ejército Rojo , en su avance imparable hacia Berlín, mientras atravesaba Polonia, encontró que el infierno había abierto una sucursal en la Tierra. En los mapas
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5.5 magnitude earthquake felt in northern ArgentinaFri, 24 Jan 2020 01:31:00 +0100.

. A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck northern Argentina on Thursday close to the town of El Hoyo, the US Geological Survey said. The quake, located 16km west of the town, was very deep, some 560.4km below the surface. There were no reports
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5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes ArgentinaFri, 24 Jan 2020 01:24:00 +0100.

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck Argentina on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at around 9:11 pm (UTC), was located at a depth of 560 kilometres, ab
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En países con alto índice de sismosWed, 15 Jan 2020 23:45:00 +0100.

Más de 1,5 millones de haitianos quedaron sin hogar a causa del , dejando a las autoridades del país y a la comunidad humanitaria internacional ante un desafío colosal. El cantante de reguetón Daddy Yankee se solidarizó con sus compatriota
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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),