M 5.3 in Argentina on 05 Dec 2016 18:06 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 1100088
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 191.41 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.2068 , -66.4589
Event Date: 05 Dec 2016 18:06 UTC
05 Dec 2016 15:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 21123 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2016 18:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007f0t Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),