M 4.7 in Peru on 25 Jul 2013 02:07 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 1000636
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 23.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.9065 , -72.1681
Event Date: 25 Jul 2013 02:07 UTC
24 Jul 2013 21:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jul 2013 02:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Chile - Earthquake (ECHO 04 Dec 2019)Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:04

  • An earthquake of 6.0 M at a depth of 32 km struck off the west coast of Arica y Parinacota Region (northern Chile) on 3 December at 8:46 UTC (3:46 local time). The epicentre was approximately 37 km west-southwest of Arica City. Another quake of 5.4 M at a depth of 10 km, occurred on 7:29 UTC offshore 240 km south of the main event.
  • According to the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA), no tsunami warning has been issued. USGS PAGER estimates that up to 135,000 people were exposed to very moderate shaking.
  • As of 4 December, there are no reports of casualties or damage, however, the seismic event was felt also in southern Peru.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),