M 4.9 in Peru on 09 Mar 2022 18:18 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 1313121
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.2322 , -76.2234
Event Date: 09 Mar 2022 18:18 UTC
09 Mar 2022 13:18 Local
Exposed Population:
730 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Mar 2022 18:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000h3db Scaled population (vector) 5.55  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Moderate magnitude 4.7 earthquake 63 km northeast of Arequipa, Peru 3/12/2022 3:55:00 PM.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred only 11 minutes ago 63 km northeast of Arequipa, Peru, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake reported. The quake hit at an intermediate to considerable depth of 220.4 km beneath the epicen
...(more)
Light mag. 4.7 earthquake - 63 km northeast of Arequipa, Peru, on Satu.. 3/12/2022 3:55:00 PM.

Moderate magnitude 4.7 earthquake 63 km northeast of Arequipa, Peru An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred only 11 minutes ago 63 km northeast of Arequipa, Peru, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake reported. The quake hit at
...(more)
Light mag. 4.7 earthquake - 43 km southeast of Pucallpa, Provincia de .. 3/11/2022 9:51:00 PM.

Just 28 minutes ago, a 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Pucallpa, Provincia de Coronel Portillo, Ucayali, Peru. The tremor was recorded early afternoon on Friday, March 11th, 2022, at 3:02 pm local time, at an intermediate to considerab
...(more)
Moderate magnitude 4.7 earthquake 43 km southeast of Pucallpa, Peru 3/11/2022 9:51:00 PM.

Just 28 minutes ago, a 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Pucallpa, Provincia de Coronel Portillo, Ucayali, Peru. The tremor was recorded early afternoon on Friday, March 11th, 2022, at 3:02 pm local time, at an intermediate to considerab
...(more)

View more news

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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),