Overall Green Earthquake alert in Argentina on 29 Nov 2012 00:09 UTC

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M 4.9 in Argentina on 29 Nov 2012 00:09 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 121144
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-32.829 , -68.9626
Event Date:	29 Nov 2012 00:09 UTC 28 Nov 2012 21:09 Local
Exposed Population:	1420000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Nov 2012 00:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usc000e0he	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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