M 5.3 in Peru on 28 Jan 2017 06:42 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 1104248
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 45.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.3088 , -78.8847
Event Date: 28 Jan 2017 06:42 UTC
28 Jan 2017 01:42 Local
Exposed Population:
530000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2017 07:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us10007vwu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 458 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

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Presidencia de la República: dificultades y requisitosWed, 01 Feb 2017 05:17:00 +0100.

La ex Primera Dama Luisa Durán de Lagos ha hablado –con cierto asombro– sobre lo extraordinario de “que todo el mundo crea que puede ser Presidente”, poniendo énfasis en las dificultades que trae aparejadas el ejercicio de tan alta responsa
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New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutesWed, 01 Feb 2017 00:56:00 +0100.

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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),