M 5.3 in Argentina on 16 Nov 2017 15:51 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 1126607
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.543 , -62.8985
Event Date: 16 Nov 2017 15:51 UTC
16 Nov 2017 11:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2017 16:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bpsa 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),