Overall Green Earthquake alert in Peru on 20 Feb 2017 07:45 UTC

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M 5.4 in Peru on 20 Feb 2017 07:45 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 1106004
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.2197 , -74.9708
Event Date:	20 Feb 2017 07:45 UTC 20 Feb 2017 02:45 Local
Exposed Population:	About 51000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Feb 2017 08:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008kvi	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Ministerio del Ambiente dialoga con la sociedad civil sobre los bosque.. 2/23/2017 11:31:00 PM.

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Peru: Informe de emergencia Nº 192 - Inundación en las provincias del .. 2/22/2017 8:22:00 PM.

I. HECHOS: Desde el 31 de enero de 2017, a las 20:00 horas aproximadamente, se registró una intensa precipitación de larga duración (14 horas), produciéndose afectación por inundación en varias localidades de los distritos de Pacora, Jayanc

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Volcán Sabancaya: crearán miradores turísticos para observar proceso e.. 2/21/2017 9:11:00 PM.

Las autoridades peruanas crearán una serie de miradores en el turístico Valle del Colca para observar el proceso eruptivo del volcán Sabancaya , anunció hoy la Autoridad Autónoma del Colca (Autocolca), encargada de promocionar el turismo en

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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),

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