M 5.5 in Peru on 30 Oct 2020 18:24 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 1241659
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 36 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.1762 , -75.175
Event Date: 30 Oct 2020 18:24 UTC
30 Oct 2020 13:24 Local
Exposed Population: About 8000 people in MMI
300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Nov 2020 16:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c84t 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

Articles: 170 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

Hurricane Eta 'extremely dangerous' as it nears Central AmericaTue, 03 Nov 2020 14:32:00 +0100.

Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Hurricane Eta is inching closer to Central America as a powerful Category 4 storm and is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Tuesday. Eta is the 28th named storm and 12th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
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Hurricane Eta 'extremely dangerous' as it nears Central AmericaTue, 03 Nov 2020 14:12:00 +0100.

Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Hurricane Eta is inching closer to Central America as a powerful Category 4 storm and is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Tuesday. Eta is the 28th named storm and 12th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
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Palestinians Rally In Solidarity With Quake-Hit TurkeyTue, 03 Nov 2020 11:39:00 +0100.

By Nour Abu Eisha Scores of Palestinians staged a rally in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to show solidarity with Turkey after an earthquake in the Aegean region killed at least 58 people. At least 896 people were also wounded in the magnitude-6.
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Cantabrians concerned by loss of Christchurch regeneration portfolioTue, 03 Nov 2020 08:13:00 +0100.

Christchurch leaders are hoping the government is not walking away from its responsibilities in the city.

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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),