Overall Green Earthquake alert in Peru on 28 Nov 2021 06:32 UTC

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M 5.1 in Peru on 28 Nov 2021 06:32 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 1298845
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	64.45 Km
Lat/Lon:	-12.0305 , -77.3749
Event Date:	28 Nov 2021 06:32 UTC 28 Nov 2021 01:32 Local
Exposed Population:	9.7 million in 100km
Inserted at:	28 Nov 2021 07:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.9		0.9
us7000fxna	Scaled population (vector)	7.25
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0.27
	INFORM_normalised	0.94

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