M 5.2 in Argentina on 26 Feb 2016 08:52 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 1081390
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 32.46 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.7226 , -67.5553
Event Date: 26 Feb 2016 08:52 UTC
26 Feb 2016 05:52 Local
Exposed Population:
603246 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2016 09:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 281 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Story Number: NNS160229-15 Release Date: 2/29/2016 2:11:00 PM. By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Indra Bosko, U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs. OSAKA, Japan (NNS) -- The U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), and its embarke
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Tepco plans dialogue with residents on Fukushima reactor decommissioni ... Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:31:00 +0100.

FUKUSHIMA – Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to set up a forum for dialogue with residents in Fu­ku­shi­ma Prefecture about the company’s work to decommission reactors at its wrecked nuclear plant, according to a Tepco executive. In a recent
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Survey finds post-disaster reconstruction slow in Tohoku prefecturesTue, 01 Mar 2016 07:31:00 +0100.

The pace of reconstruction in northeastern Japan after the powerful earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, and the subsequent nuclear disaster, differs from community to community, with a delay forecast in Fukushima municipalities affected b
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Proces po awarii Fukushimy. Są oskarżeniTue, 01 Mar 2016 07:08:00 +0100.

Sąd w Tokio zarzuca trzem byłym dyrektorom TEPCO zaniedbania zawodowe, których wynikiem były ofiary śmiertelne. Oskarżeni to: ówczesny prezes TEPCO 75-letni Tsunehisa Katsumata i ówcześni wiceprezesi - 65-letni Sakae Muto i 69-letni Ichiro
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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),