Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Argentina on 19 Jan 2021 02:46 UTC

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M 6.4 in Argentina on 19 Jan 2021 02:46 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1252169
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.4M
Depth:	20 Km
Lat/Lon:	-31.8184 , -68.8473
Event Date:	19 Jan 2021 02:46 UTC 18 Jan 2021 23:46 Local
Exposed Population:	150000 people in MMI 750000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Jan 2021 03:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.7 (Argentina)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	1.2		1.2
us7000d18q	Scaled population (raster)	4.03
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.83

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Argentina - Earthquake (ECHO 19 Jan 2021)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:18

An earthquake of 6.4 M at a depth of 20 km occurred in west-central Argentina on 19 January at 2.46 UTC. The epicentre was located approximately 37 km southwest of San Juan City and 110 km north of Mendoza City.
USGS PAGER estimates that up to 1,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking and up to 651,000 people to strong shaking.
A series of aftershocks with magnitude up to 5.3 M have been recorded in the area.
According to media, there are no casualties but some damage and power outages have been reported in San Juan Province.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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