Overall Green Earthquake in Argentina on 01 Oct 2018 18:03 UTC

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M 4.7 in Argentina on 01 Oct 2018 18:03 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 1158053
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	226.36 Km
Lat/Lon:	-24.0713 , -66.9709
Event Date:	01 Oct 2018 18:03 UTC 01 Oct 2018 15:03 Local
Exposed Population:	About 11000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 Oct 2018 18:17 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
us1000h55a	Scaled population (vector)	3.82
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.83

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