M 4.6 in Peru on 17 Nov 2017 00:33 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 1126634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.0192 , -80.5768
Event Date: 17 Nov 2017 00:33 UTC
16 Nov 2017 19:33 Local
Exposed Population:
880000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2017 00:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bq2z Scaled population (vector) 4.95  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 591 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

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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),