M 5 in Argentina on 23 Oct 2020 16:29 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 1240614
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 136.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.5525 , -67.3482
Event Date: 23 Oct 2020 16:29 UTC
23 Oct 2020 13:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 64000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Oct 2020 16:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cc6p Scaled population (vector) 4.85  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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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),