M 5.1 in Peru on 09 Feb 2017 00:50 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 1105136
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 72.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.0664 , -73.9888
Event Date: 09 Feb 2017 00:50 UTC
08 Feb 2017 19:50 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Feb 2017 01:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
us20008ilv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 719 | About casualties: 52 | Last hour: 0

فضيحة فساد بتروبراس تُقلق الرئيس البرازيليSun, 12 Feb 2017 23:07:00 +0100.

تدفع المعلومات المخيفة التي ستتكشّف في الأسابيع المقبلة، حول فضيحة الفساد في بتروبراس، الرئيس البرازيلي ميشال تامر إلى تحصين نفسه من خلال تعيين حلفاء في المناصب الأساسية. ويواجه سياسيون من كل الاتجاهات تهديداً أشبه بقنبلة موقوتة، يتمثل بالأ
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Fukushima : les secrets d'une catastropheSun, 12 Feb 2017 21:07:00 +0100.

Le 11 mars 2011, un tremblement de terre provoque un tsunami dévastateur au large du Japon. La vague submerge la centrale de Fukushima, un cataclysme nucléaire menace l'archipel. Dans un pays en danger, quand une décision engage la vie de m
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Christchurch, Japanese students developing search and rescue dronesSun, 12 Feb 2017 19:46:00 +0100.

CLEVER: Canterbury University students are working with Japanese academics to develop technologies that could be used to find people after a natural disaster. Photo / Christchurch Star. Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing ne
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Rechtspopulismus in den Niederlanden - Wilders will den Koran verbiete ... Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:31:00 +0100.

Geert Wilders könnte als großer Gewinner aus den niederländischen Parlamentswahlen hervorgehen. In einem TV-Interview vergleicht er den Koran nun mit „Mein Kampf“ und nennt Moscheen „Nazi-Tempel“. Am Anfang war die Stimmung noch entspannt.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),