M 6.2 in Argentina on 13 Sep 2021 05:18 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 1285453
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 193.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.8884 , -67.0152
Event Date: 13 Sep 2021 05:18 UTC
13 Sep 2021 02:18 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Sep 2021 07:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fap8 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),