M 5.6 in Peru on 18 Jan 2019 21:26 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 1168446
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 99.02 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.2967 , -76.7252
Event Date: 18 Jan 2019 21:26 UTC
18 Jan 2019 16:26 Local
Exposed Population: About 24000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2019 21:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Peru= 4.6; Ecuador= 4.3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j63c Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 99 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Áncash: Sismo de 4 grados se sintió la madrugada de este lunes en Chim ... Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:13:00 +0100.

Áncash experimentó un nuevo sismo este lunes. El movimiento telúrico de 4 grados en la escala de Richter se sintió en las costas de Chimbote, según informó el Instituto Geofísico del Perú ( IGP ) a través de sus redes sociales y plataforma
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Áncash: Sismo de 4 grados se sintió la madrugada de este lunes en Chim ... Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:14:00 +0100.

experimentó un nuevo este lunes. El movimiento telúrico de 4 grados en la escala de Richter se sintió en las costas de Chimbote, según informó el Instituto Geofísico del Perú a través de sus redes sociales y plataforma online. El leve tembl
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IGP registró sismo de magnitud 4.0 en Huancavelica esta madrugadaMon, 21 Jan 2019 10:16:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 4.0 en la escala de Richter se registró esta madrugada a 25 kilómetros noroeste de la provincia de Huancavelica , capital de la región homónima, según el Instituto Geofísico del Perú , el IGP informó que este movimient
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5.6 magnitude quake jolts PeruSat, 19 Jan 2019 03:49:00 +0100.

on Friday. The quake struck 169 km north of Barranca at around 9:26 pm (UTC). The temblor was situated at a depth of 99 km, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). No tsunami warning has been issued and no casualties or da
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),