M 4.6 in Argentina on 26 Feb 2016 07:19 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 1081381
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 99.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.8894 , -67.5535
Event Date: 26 Feb 2016 07:19 UTC
26 Feb 2016 04:19 Local
Exposed Population:
247229 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2016 07:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
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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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),