M 4.8 in Peru on 25 Mar 2017 18:06 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 1108641
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 24.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6111 , -77.0049
Event Date: 25 Mar 2017 18:06 UTC
25 Mar 2017 13:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2017 18:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008umq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),