M 5.3 in Peru on 20 Sep 2017 05:26 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 1121898
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 92.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.2747 , -71.3157
Event Date: 20 Sep 2017 05:26 UTC
20 Sep 2017 00:26 Local
Exposed Population:
1040000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2017 05:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us2000arh1 Scaled population (vector) 6.3  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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),