M 4.5 in Argentina on 22 May 2017 19:24 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 1113598
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 225.04 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.0542 , -67.2992
Event Date: 22 May 2017 19:24 UTC
22 May 2017 16:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2017 21:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008u6b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Deceased donor leaves ¥40 million, property in Osaka to 3/11 orphansFri, 26 May 2017 13:46:00 +0200.

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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),