M 5.1 in Peru on 31 Jul 2020 10:03 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 1228311
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 57.37 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.1863 , -72.9436
Event Date: 31 Jul 2020 10:03 UTC
31 Jul 2020 05:03 Local
Exposed Population:
490000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jul 2020 10:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b7d2 Scaled population (vector) 5.56  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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BBC: Perú entre los mejor preparados para el ‘tsunami económico’Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:12:00 +0200.

Un informe elaborado por la BBC ubica al Perú entre los países mejor preparados para enfrentar el “tsunami económico” que amenaza América Latina, en el marco de la mayor crisis económica de las últimas décadas, con un desempleo regional que
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Animals Sense Earthquakes Before They Happen. Can They Help Us Predict ... Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:58:00 +0200.

When the earthquake hit central Italy on Oct. 26, 2016, Martin Wikelski and his colleagues descended on the site in less than 24 hours. Wikelski , an ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, wanted to test a hunc
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Piedmont’s Lantern Projects continues doing lots with littleTue, 14 Jul 2020 22:53:00 +0200.

Lantern Projects founder Gail Uilkema has no favorites among the nonprofit humanitarian aid organization’s approximately 415 charitable projects. Reaching communities from more than 60 countries in the 17 years since its inception and with
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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.
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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),