M 4.5 in Argentina on 30 Mar 2024 03:54 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 1421777
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 141.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.8656 , -68.5494
Event Date: 30 Mar 2024 03:54 UTC
30 Mar 2024 00:54 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2024 04:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Argentina= 3.7; Chile= 3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8vn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),