M 5.6 in Peru on 25 Jan 2019 04:45 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 1168832
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 57.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.5252 , -75.3858
Event Date: 25 Jan 2019 04:45 UTC
24 Jan 2019 23:45 Local
Exposed Population: 450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2019 05:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j8n4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 91 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Deadly accidents in Latin America recentlyMon, 28 Jan 2019 08:49:00 +0100.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 58 people died and hundreds remain missing after a tailings dam owned by mining giant Vale collapsed Friday afternoon in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais, said local authorities. The f
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Peru: Natural Disasters Monitoring - January 25, 2019Sun, 27 Jan 2019 02:22:00 +0100.

Official Sources: Earthquake Peru On 25 December 2019, the Peru National Emergency Operations Center (COEN) reported an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude and 50 kilometers deep occurred yesterday at 23:45 local time 68 kilometers southwest of Pal
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Peruanos no debemos subestimar la probabilidad de un tsunami en nuestr ... Sat, 26 Jan 2019 06:50:00 +0100.

Tras los continuos sismos que se vienen registrando en nuestro país y continente, es importante contar con un sistema sofisticado de alerta temprana de tsunamis y terremotos en el Perú, cómo en Japón y fomentar la concientización de alertas
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Sacude sismo de 6.0 a Perú y deja seis heridosFri, 25 Jan 2019 22:26:00 +0100.

25/01/2019 15:09 / Lima, Perú Un sismo magnitud 6.0 que sacudió el jueves en la noche la zona costera del centro de Perú causó daños menores y dejó seis heridos en localidades cercanas a las centenarias Líneas de Nazca, informó este viernes
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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),