M 4.5 in Peru on 09 Mar 2025 21:59 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 1471634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 258.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7748 , -69.5876
Event Date: 09 Mar 2025 21:59 UTC
09 Mar 2025 16:59 Local
Exposed Population:
1.2 million in MMI I
Inserted at: 10 Mar 2025 02:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bolivia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bolivia= 5.4; Peru= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pxus Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Peru-Brazil border region, GFZ says 3/11/2025 2:54:00 PM.

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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),