Overall Green Earthquake alert in Argentina on 03 Jan 2023 12:26 UTC

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M 4.5 in Argentina on 03 Jan 2023 12:26 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 1352929
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	120.995 Km
Lat/Lon:	-31.5565 , -69.3157
Event Date:	03 Jan 2023 12:26 UTC 03 Jan 2023 09:26 Local
Exposed Population:	5 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	03 Jan 2023 12:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000j1tg	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Latest media headlines

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Argentina was shaken near Calingasta, Departamento de Calingasta, San Juan, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.0 only 12 minutes ago, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 12

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Argentina was shaken near Calingasta, Departamento de Calingasta, San Juan, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.0 only 12 minutes ago, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 12

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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),

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