M 4.6 in Peru on 15 Jan 2021 23:51 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 1251749
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 40.73 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.8119 , -77.0955
Event Date: 15 Jan 2021 23:51 UTC
15 Jan 2021 18:51 Local
Exposed Population:
8840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2021 00:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d0iv Scaled population (vector) 6.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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),