Overall Green Earthquake in Peru on 23 Dec 2021 23:02 UTC

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M 4.8 in Peru on 23 Dec 2021 23:02 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 1303127
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.4541 , -82.0827
Event Date:	23 Dec 2021 23:02 UTC 23 Dec 2021 18:02 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	23 Dec 2021 23:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Peru)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gexr	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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),

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