M 5.4 in Peru on 20 Feb 2017 07:45 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 1106004
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2197 , -74.9708
Event Date: 20 Feb 2017 07:45 UTC
20 Feb 2017 02:45 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2017 08:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008kvi Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 399 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Philippines: Philippines: NDRRMC scales up preps for magnitude 7.2 ear ... Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:29:00 +0100.

QUEZON CITY, Feb. 24 - National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) members convene to discuss plans and preparations for a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Thursdays at the NDRRMC Conference Room, Camp General Emilio Aguinal
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Venha o tsunamiFri, 24 Feb 2017 06:35:00 +0100.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Todos ainda nos lembramos dos tsunamis que atingiram a Mal�sia, a Indon�sia e a Tail�ndia, em 2004, e o Jap�o, em 2011. Alguns nasceram de um terremoto. Outros come�aram por um vazamento da mar�, que deixava a seco em minut
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POST SCRIPTFri, 24 Feb 2017 05:55:00 +0100.

"When the re-education camps are being built to handle the grammar miscreants, could an additional wing be added to the "fewer/less" cell blocks", asked Ian Morris of Strathfield this week. "This will house those who talk about "the amount
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Comunicado di prensa di TsunamiFri, 24 Feb 2017 05:46:00 +0100.

y cada un di nos mester bai hunga den nos communidad. Nos ta assumi e rol aki cu conviction grandi cu nos mester duna di nos parti pa jega na un Aruba sin Violencia Domestico y nos ta haci esaki cu action tambe. Tsunami a compromete su mes
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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.
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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),