M 4.5 in Argentina on 31 Mar 2021 16:09 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 1262994
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 142.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -36.7185 , -71.0401
Event Date: 31 Mar 2021 16:09 UTC
31 Mar 2021 13:09 Local
Exposed Population:
450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2021 21:42 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
us6000dxzt Scaled population (vector) 4.99  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),