M 5.8 in Peru on 18 Apr 2017 17:49 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 1110596
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 14 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.7334 , -75.3507
Event Date: 18 Apr 2017 17:49 UTC
18 Apr 2017 12:49 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VIII
About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2017 16:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008iq5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

19/Apr/2017 06:01 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),