M 4.7 in Peru on 27 Jan 2017 21:28 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 1104227
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -16.3255 , -73.4276
Event Date: 27 Jan 2017 21:28 UTC
27 Jan 2017 16:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 78000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2017 23:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007vuk 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),