M 4.8 in Peru on 15 Dec 2017 11:11 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 1128742
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 39.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.749 , -75.6665
Event Date: 15 Dec 2017 11:11 UTC
15 Dec 2017 06:11 Local
Exposed Population:
290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2017 11:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c4t2 Scaled population (vector) 5.26  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 134 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Preparado para un sismo: esto debes tener en tu mochila de emergenciaFri, 15 Dec 2017 13:50:00 +0100.

ALERTA ¿Tienes una mochila de emergencia en casa? El Perú está ubicado en una zona altamente sísmica. Es por ello que la población debe tomar medidas a fin de mitigar los efectos de un desastre y contar con un kit básico de supervivencia en
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Japanese court orders Ikata 3 to closeFri, 15 Dec 2017 13:42:00 +0100.

The high court suspension order, the first in a series of similar injunctions, mandates that the plant operator to close the unit until the end of September 2018. The ruling blocks the planned restart of the unit in January. Shikoku Electri
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Steven Zhang esalta i tifosi: "San Siro come Broadway. Quando parte il ... Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:33:00 +0100.

Il figlio di Suning, Steven Zhang, ha parlato del suo approdo nel mondo Inter e del calore dei tifosi e di San Siro. Zhang Jindong , patron di Suning e dell’ Inter , non vuole lasciare nulla al caso e per gestire da vicino il club nerazzurr
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Tendencias de Google Perú en el 2017Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:41:00 +0100.

. Google reveló cuáles fueron los términos de búsqueda con mayor crecimiento en el Perú durante este año. El primer lugar de las tendencias del 2017 es ocupado por el delantero peruano Paolo Guerrero, quien fue sancionado por la FIFA. El ju
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),