Overall Green Earthquake in Argentina on 20 Dec 2021 16:34 UTC

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M 5 in Argentina on 20 Dec 2021 16:34 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 1302613
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-26.1402 , -64.7119
Event Date:	20 Dec 2021 16:34 UTC 20 Dec 2021 13:34 Local
Exposed Population:	1.2 million in 100km
Inserted at:	21 Dec 2021 20:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gdvs	Scaled population (vector)	5.45
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.83

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