M 4.5 in Peru on 13 Dec 2021 13:28 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 1301332
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 98.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.3694 , -75.7891
Event Date: 13 Dec 2021 13:28 UTC
13 Dec 2021 08:28 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2021 14:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gbvm Scaled population (vector) 4.21  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),