Overall Green Earthquake alert in Argentina on 22 Feb 2013 12:01 UTC

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M 6.1 in Argentina on 22 Feb 2013 12:01 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 122870
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	585.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	-27.993 , -63.195
Event Date:	22 Feb 2013 12:01 UTC 22 Feb 2013 09:01 Local
Exposed Population:	168258 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Feb 2013 13:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usc000fbl2	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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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),

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