M 5.1 in Peru on 06 Jan 2017 22:55 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 1102686
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 43.51 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.2935 , -78.1315
Event Date: 06 Jan 2017 22:55 UTC
06 Jan 2017 17:55 Local
Exposed Population:
350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2017 23:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10007rrw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),