M 4.6 in Argentina on 22 Feb 2021 23:14 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 1257061
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 114.41 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.9927 , -69.1721
Event Date: 22 Feb 2021 23:14 UTC
22 Feb 2021 20:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2021 00:07 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
us6000dk9x Scaled population (vector) 4.66  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 40 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Light mag. 4.3 earthquake - JUJUY, ARGENTINA, on Tuesday, 23 February ... Tue, 23 Feb 2021 06:51:00 +0100.

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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),