M 4.6 in Argentina on 29 Jan 2017 15:46 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 1104352
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -30.3982 , -68.6799
Event Date: 29 Jan 2017 15:46 UTC
29 Jan 2017 12:46 Local
Exposed Population:
About 46000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2017 17:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007w1h Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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