M 6.2 in Peru on 28 Dec 2025 02:51 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 1517035
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 66.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.9602 , -78.9738
Event Date: 28 Dec 2025 02:51 UTC
27 Dec 2025 21:51 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2025 03:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000rl57 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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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 (92), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),