M 4.6 in Argentina on 31 Dec 2020 21:13 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 1249888
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 260.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.9622 , -66.5889
Event Date: 31 Dec 2020 21:13 UTC
31 Dec 2020 18:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 22000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Dec 2020 21:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d4mx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 41 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Al menos 5 personas murieron por un fuerte sismo en el centro de Croac ... Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:42:00 +0100.

Al menos 5 personas murieron y cerca de 20 fueron hospitalizadas tras un fuerte sismo de magnitud 6,4 que sacudió este martes a Croacia, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS), movimiento que provocó el derrumbe de edificios
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Devastador terremoto en Croacia dejó 5 muertosTue, 29 Dec 2020 22:56:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),