M 4.8 in Peru on 22 Feb 2016 20:29 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 1081140
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 18.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7233 , -71.725
Event Date: 22 Feb 2016 20:29 UTC
22 Feb 2016 15:29 Local
Exposed Population:
1084090 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Feb 2016 22:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 390 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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e deixou mais de 15 mil mortos. Japão Para especialistas, essas pessoas podem estar sofrendo algum tipo de transtorno psicológico causado pelo trauma de ter sobrevivido a um dos piores desastres naturais já ocorridos no Japão. Mas a graduan
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Chitty La Roche: ¿Cómo es posible que Maduro y Cabello critiquen la Le ... Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:33:00 +0100.

ND / Michelle Figueredo / 21 ene 2016.- El escritor y político venezolano, Nelson Chitty La Roche se refirió este viernes a la ley de Producción Nacional asegurando que es un sincero esfuerzo para mejorar la crisis. Así lo dijo en entrevis
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Alejandro Aravena: the star of social housingFri, 26 Feb 2016 19:26:00 +0100.

By Alfons Luna (AFP) 1 hour ago in World Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has built a global reputation not by designing prestige buildings but by creating social housing, distancing his craft from purely aesthetic concerns
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Alejandro Aravena: the star of social housingFri, 26 Feb 2016 18:30:00 +0100.

Following the 2010 earthquake in his country, Aravena, 48, masterminded the reconstruction of Constitucion, a coastal town devastated by six-metre (20-foot) tsunami waves that followed the shock. His work has been honoured with the 2016 Pri
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),