M 4.8 in Peru on 15 Sep 2020 06:44 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 1235465
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 51.16 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.4104 , -80.3066
Event Date: 15 Sep 2020 06:44 UTC
15 Sep 2020 01:44 Local
Exposed Population:
1140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2020 07:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Peru= 4.6; Ecuador= 4.3

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000bnff Scaled population (vector) 6.34  
  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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Belt of Fire, the place where most earthquakes are born in the worldWed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another)
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Nobel Peace Prize: A case for the White Coat ArmyFri, 11 Sep 2020 05:04:00 +0200.

By Owei Lakemfa. THE British cruise ship, MS Braemer with 682 passengers from ten countries was in March 2020 virtually adrift in the Caribbean with no destination habour and no port willing to allow it dock because the coronavirus COVID-19
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ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray still summer--mother’s silence ... Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:17:00 +0200.

still summer--mother’s silence in every room --Giuliana Ravaglia (Bologna, Italy) ragged flag on the border post a ghost’s fingers --Hifsa Ashraf (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) hundredth day whistling ducks bring the lake home --Salil Chaturvedi (G
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Americares Responds to COVID-19 Surge in PeruThu, 03 Sep 2020 14:24:00 +0200.

Stamford, Conn. -- Sept. 2, 2020 -- Americares is providing surge medical support in Peruvian health facilities overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The health-focused relief and development organization is dispatching medical personnel, a
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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),