M 4.5 in Argentina on 18 Oct 2020 00:57 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 1239732
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 113.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.2814 , -68.7651
Event Date: 18 Oct 2020 00:57 UTC
17 Oct 2020 21:57 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2020 01:16 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
us6000c92h Scaled population (vector) 3.73  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

As the World BurnsTue, 13 Oct 2020 07:09:00 +0200.

In late August, more than 600 separate wildfires ravaged California, killing seven people. Meanwhile, two tropical cyclones struck the Gulf Coast only days apart: first Tropical Storm Marco and then Hurricane Laura, the latter of which kill
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Tsunami en el Cono SurFri, 09 Oct 2020 12:59:00 +0200.

El Informe de la Misión internacional independiente de determinación de los hechos sobre la República Bolivariana de Venezuela desarrollado a petición del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos ha causado tal impa
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A continent ablaze: why fires are tearing across South AmericaFri, 09 Oct 2020 10:06:00 +0200.

P rimatologist Martin Kowalewski is measuring the scale of the fires raging across Latin America not in satellite images, but in the number of caraya monkeys (black-and-gold howlers) that have succumbed to the flames. “Of the 20 family grou
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A continent ablaze: why fires are tearing across South AmericaFri, 09 Oct 2020 08:59:00 +0200.

P rimatologist Martin Kowalewski is measuring the scale of the fires raging across Latin America not in satellite images, but in the number of caraya monkeys (black-and-gold howlers) that have succumbed to the flames. “Of the 20 family grou
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),