M 5.5 in Peru on 25 Aug 2020 05:18 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 1231676
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 33.21 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.0303 , -80.8246
Event Date: 25 Aug 2020 05:18 UTC
25 Aug 2020 00:18 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people in MMI
920000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Aug 2020 07:22 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
us7000bcgc Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Temblor de 5.5 de magnitud esta madrugada tuvo como epicentro PiuraTue, 25 Aug 2020 14:49:00 +0200.

PUEDES VER El norte del Perú registra 10.000 muertes más a comparación del 2019 Otro sismo se registró en Máncora. La profundidad de este movimiento telúrico fue de 37 kilómetros, y el epicentro fue localizado a 17 km al este de Máncora.
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Marina de Guerra descarta tsunami tras temblores en PiuraTue, 25 Aug 2020 09:38:00 +0200.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),