Overall Green Earthquake alert in Argentina on 27 Feb 2014 17:23 UTC

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M 4.9 in Argentina on 27 Feb 2014 17:23 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 1026704
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	97.52 Km
Lat/Lon:	-31.2183 , -68.4638
Event Date:	27 Feb 2014 17:23 UTC 27 Feb 2014 14:23 Local
Exposed Population:	631743 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Feb 2014 17:50 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.9		-0.9
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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