M 5.2 in Argentina on 15 Jan 2016 20:32 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 1078672
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.495 , -67.8848
Event Date: 15 Jan 2016 20:32 UTC
15 Jan 2016 17:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 74910 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2016 21:36 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 277 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

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Peak histórico de ingreso de turistas a la Región de CoquimboTue, 19 Jan 2016 18:00:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),