M 6.2 in Peru on 20 Dec 2023 12:11 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 1406877
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 93.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.9595 , -72.6028
Event Date: 20 Dec 2023 12:11 UTC
20 Dec 2023 07:11 Local
Exposed Population: 80 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2023 12:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000lkb1 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 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 (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),