M 5.1 in Argentina on 31 Jan 2021 03:59 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 1253873
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 168.65 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.2289 , -66.9403
Event Date: 31 Jan 2021 03:59 UTC
31 Jan 2021 00:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 12000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2021 04:19 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 0 0
us6000ddcd Scaled population (vector) 3.88  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 170 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

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An earthquake of average magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale 48 km nort ... Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:05:00 +0100.

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World Earthquake Report for Sunday, 31 January 2021Sun, 31 Jan 2021 06:42:00 +0100.

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Moderate yet deep earthquake of magnitude 5.1 just reported 71 km west ... Sun, 31 Jan 2021 05:39:00 +0100.

A intermediate to deep magnitude 5.1 earthquake was reported after midnight near San Antonio de los Cobres, Departamento de Los Andes, Salta, Argentina. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Sunday
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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),