M 5.1 in Peru on 03 May 2017 12:42 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 1111963
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 48.35 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.136 , -73.4694
Event Date: 03 May 2017 12:42 UTC
03 May 2017 07:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 84000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2017 13:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008nt0 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 321 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Police, defence vehicles on emergency duty allowed to use multi-colour ... Sun, 07 May 2017 11:25:00 +0200.

The Centre has allowed emergency vehicles on duty for maintaining law and order, including those of the police, defence and paramilitary forces, to use multi-coloured beacon lights having red, blue and white colours. Seeking to end the VIP
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Police, defence vehicles allowed to use multi-colour beaconsSun, 07 May 2017 10:38:00 +0200.

The Centre has allowed emergency vehicles on duty for maintaining law and order, including those of the police, defence and paramilitary forces, to use multi-coloured beacon lights having red, blue and white colours. The Centre has allowed
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"Sobre el terreno es difícil desconectar; por salud no estamos más de ... Sun, 07 May 2017 09:38:00 +0200.

El jefe de la Unidad de Emergencias de Cruz Roja Española, Íñigo Vila Guerra, visitó esta semana Galicia para explicar cómo se coordinan los equipos de todo el mundo para, en un plazo de 72 horas, llegar al punto donde surja una emergencia.
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Stepping towards sustainable afforestationSun, 07 May 2017 09:14:00 +0200.

LAHORE: Pakistan’s forest area constitutes approximately 4.4pc of its total land area, which must be 25pc as per international standards. Although the initiative of K-P government for Billion Tree Tsunami afforestation project must be prais
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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),