M 5.5 in Peru on 28 Feb 2021 02:16 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 1257821
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 9.65 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.5676 , -72.583
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 02:16 UTC
27 Feb 2021 21:16 Local
Exposed Population: About 56000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 02:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000de9a Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 22 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Peru: Magnitude-5.0 earthquake occurs in Piura Region, at around 2030 ... Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:16:00 +0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.0 earthquake occurred in Piura Region at around 2030 PET March 2. The epicenter was about 51 km (31 miles) south southwest of Piura. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 35 km (22 miles), and weak-to-light shaking wa
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3.1-magnitude earthquake strikes 31 miles north of Mammoth Lakes, Cali ... Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:19:00 +0100.

08:44 am | By: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR. 3.1 Earthquake Feb 28 12:24 am (GMT -8) A 3.1-magnitude earthquake near Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, California, USA, was reported just 8 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, which is the main
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Moderate magnitude 4.7 earthquake 41 km northeast of Calama, ChileSun, 28 Feb 2021 06:03:00 +0100.

The recent 4.7 earthquake which occurred 29 km southwest of Reykjavic, Iceland, was only one of the quakes which exceeded a magnitude 4.0. According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) the ongoing earthquake swarm in Iceland produc
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Peru: Magnitude-5.5 offshore earthquake occurs near Arequipa Region, a ... Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:38:00 +0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.5 offshore earthquake occurred off the coast of southern Peru at around 2116 PET Feb. 27. The epicenter was about 171 km (106 miles) southwest of Arequipa. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and we
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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),