M 4.8 in Argentina on 07 Dec 2021 09:41 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 1300343
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 155.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.9593 , -66.5584
Event Date: 07 Dec 2021 09:41 UTC
07 Dec 2021 06:41 Local
Exposed Population:
330 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2021 10:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Argentina)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ga05 Scaled population (vector) 5.11  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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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),