M 5.2 in Argentina on 18 Apr 2014 07:46 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 1030016
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 608.27 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.7518 , -62.756
Event Date: 18 Apr 2014 07:46 UTC
18 Apr 2014 04:46 Local
Exposed Population:
105837 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2014 08:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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

Data, images, links, services and documents

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),