M 5.6 in Argentina on 27 Jul 2016 06:43 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 1090749
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 98.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.286 , -67.8647
Event Date: 27 Jul 2016 06:43 UTC
27 Jul 2016 03:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5056 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2016 07:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20006i18 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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Latest media headlines

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),