M 5.1 in Peru on 06 Dec 2021 06:30 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 1300215
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.8247 , -77.12
Event Date: 06 Dec 2021 06:30 UTC
06 Dec 2021 01:30 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2021 06:53 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 0
us6000g9ew Scaled population (vector) 4.6  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),