M 6.1 in Peru on 15 Mar 2014 08:59 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 1027594
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.0935 , -76.2968
Event Date: 15 Mar 2014 08:59 UTC
15 Mar 2014 03:59 Local
Exposed Population:
639795 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2014 05:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 494 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Chile: evacúan a cien mil personas por amenaza de tsunamiMon, 17 Mar 2014 08:02:00 +0100.

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Erdbeben erschüttert ChileMon, 17 Mar 2014 07:54:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),