M 5.7 in Peru on 03 May 2020 00:44 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 1216428
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 198.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.2907 , -70.4705
Event Date: 03 May 2020 00:44 UTC
02 May 2020 19:44 Local
Exposed Population:
860000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2020 02:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us7000993j Scaled population (vector) 5.99  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 10 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Alphabet's Loon and AT&T to offer global connectivity solutionsWed, 06 May 2020 18:44:00 +0200.

Alphabet's Loon announced a global collaboration with AT&T in order to respond more quickly and effectively to disasters worldwide. Loon can be effective in times of crisis or disaster. Because even in a place that has good mobile network c
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Alphabet’s Loon partners w/ AT&T to deploy internet balloons for disas ... Wed, 06 May 2020 17:23:00 +0200.

Alphabet’s Loon company has been working for the past few years on developing balloons to the stratosphere that can deliver internet connectivity to certain areas of the globe. Today, Loon has announced a partnership with AT&T that could sp
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Loon partners with AT&T to ready internet balloons for disasters globa ... Wed, 06 May 2020 17:23:00 +0200.

Loon, a division of Alphabet focused on providing internet access using floating balloons, has partnered with AT&T to help provide internet more quickly to disaster-stricken areas. In a blog post announcing the partnership , Loon CEO Alasta
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Loon partners with AT&T to ready internet balloons for disasters globa ... Wed, 06 May 2020 16:09:00 +0200.

Loon, a division of Alphabet focused on providing internet access using floating balloons, has partnered with AT&T to help provide internet more quickly to disaster-stricken areas. In a blog post announcing the partnership , Loon CEO Alasta
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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),