Overall Green Earthquake alert in Peru on 24 Mar 2017 04:34 UTC

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M 4.5 in Peru on 24 Mar 2017 04:34 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 1108516
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	75.05 Km
Lat/Lon:	-13.3466 , -75.1737
Event Date:	24 Mar 2017 04:34 UTC 23 Mar 2017 23:34 Local
Exposed Population:	580000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Mar 2017 04:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us20008u74	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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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