M 4.8 in Peru on 16 Feb 2017 10:36 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 1105695
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 40.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.1634 , -80.64
Event Date: 16 Feb 2017 10:36 UTC
16 Feb 2017 05:36 Local
Exposed Population:
580000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2017 14:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008k68 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),