M 4.9 in Peru on 13 Feb 2019 17:03 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 1170732
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.7671 , -75.5081
Event Date: 13 Feb 2019 17:03 UTC
13 Feb 2019 12:03 Local
Exposed Population:
1190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2019 17:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2000jh90 Scaled population (vector) 6.31  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 60 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Estrenos de la SemanaSat, 16 Feb 2019 04:08:00 +0100.

Los Once Machos tendrán que enfrentarse en la cancha contra el “Villano”, que ha secuestrado a sus hijos. Ahora, solo una victoria logrará que vuelvan a ver con vida a sus criaturas. ... Género: Comedia, Perú El remake de Intouchables, cue
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'Fish of tremors' appears in Peru, arousing fear for earthquakeFri, 15 Feb 2019 04:41:00 +0100.

Dozens of oarfish were discovered by Japanese fishermen at the time of a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, in 2010. 'Fish of tremors' appears in Peru, arousing fear for earthquake. Thursday, February 14, 2019, 18:00 (GMT + 9) It
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'Fish of tremors' appears in Peru, arousing fear for earthquakeThu, 14 Feb 2019 17:10:00 +0100.

Dozens of oarfish were discovered by Japanese fishermen at the time of a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, in 2010. 'Fish of tremors' appears in Peru, arousing fear for earthquake. Thursday, February 14, 2019, 18:00 (GMT + 9) It
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FEARING THE WORST Ring of fire earthquake fear as ‘disaster-predicting ... Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:39:00 +0100.

FEARS of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Ring of fire have been raised after “disaster-predicting” oarfish were being spotted on both sides of the Pacific. At least one of the giant oarfish, dubbed the “fish of tremors” for its supposed pre
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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),