M 4.6 in Argentina on 23 Jan 2021 19:19 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 1252837
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.75 , -68.8721
Event Date: 23 Jan 2021 19:19 UTC
23 Jan 2021 16:19 Local
Exposed Population:
740000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2021 02:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d2qj Scaled population (vector) 6.1  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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5.1 quake 26 Jan 8:37 pm (GMT -3) An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 occurred only 7 minutes ago 76 km west of Vinchina, Argentina, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 119 km bene
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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),