M 4.8 in Peru on 21 Mar 2017 04:29 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 1108281
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 27.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.6911 , -80.8815
Event Date: 21 Mar 2017 04:29 UTC
20 Mar 2017 23:29 Local
Exposed Population:
440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2017 04:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Peru= 4.6; Ecuador= 4.3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008tgi 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),