M 4.9 in Argentina on 17 May 2015 07:09 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 1055093
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 17.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.8819 , -68.0341
Event Date: 17 May 2015 07:09 UTC
17 May 2015 04:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 73272 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 May 2015 07:37 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

Articles: 413 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

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6.9-magnitude quake strikes off Solomon Islands: USGSThu, 21 May 2015 06:53:00 +0200.

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La noticia de una erupción volcánica o un terremoto nos atemoriza. Como si la naturaleza nos recordara que dominarla es una quimera promovida por el paradigma del progreso indefinido de la ciencia y la técnica que desde mediados del siglo p
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Asia-Pacific nations seek amphibious military skills for disaster reli ... Thu, 21 May 2015 06:37:00 +0200.

HONOLULU – Japanese Maj. Gen. Jiro Hiroe turned to numbers to explain why Japan is taking part in U.S.-led exercises to develop skills in moving troops from sea to shore: his nation has 6,852 islands and 6,414 of them are uninhabited. "Ther
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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),