M 7.1 in Peru on 14 Jan 2018 09:18 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 1130930
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.1M
Depth: 36.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7758 , -74.7441
Event Date: 14 Jan 2018 09:18 UTC
14 Jan 2018 04:18 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people in MMI
About 41000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2018 10:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.1 0.2
us2000cjfy Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0.35m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.17m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Allarme eruzione in Papua Nuova Guinea, migliaia di evacuati: “Il magm ... Thu, 18 Jan 2018 08:27:00 +0100.

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Funding approved to re-establish BVI's early warning systemThu, 18 Jan 2018 08:26:00 +0100.

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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.
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),