M 4.5 in Peru on 16 Feb 2016 22:23 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 1080760
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 87.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.6514 , -72.9166
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 22:23 UTC
16 Feb 2016 17:23 Local
Exposed Population:
121466 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2016 22:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 210 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

World: Ante el aumento de muertes infantiles en el mar, la OIM y organ ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:00 +0100.

Posted 02/19/16. Region-Country Europe es / Suiza. Suiza - En promedio, dos niños se han ahogado diariamente desde septiembre de 2015 en la travesía que intentan realizar junto a su familia a través del Mediterráneo oriental, y el número de
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Un sismo de magnitud 5,5 sacude PerúSat, 20 Feb 2016 21:20:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 5,5 se ha registrado en la noche de este viernes (hora local) en la región de Arequipa, al sur de Perú, según informa el Instituto Geofísico del Perú. El temblor se ha registrado a una profundidad de 8 kilómetros. El ep
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Business: Researchers believe GPS will hasten tsunami warningsSat, 20 Feb 2016 18:11:00 +0100.

WASHINGTON: Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, believe that global position system (GPS) instruments could provide more rapid and more accurate warning of a tsunami. In a paper to be published in the journal Geophysical Rese
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Raúl visita el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas en Sant ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:25:00 +0100.

El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros visitó este viernes el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas en Santiago de Cuba. Durante más de dos horas dialogó con directivos y trabaj
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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),