M 4.8 in Peru on 11 Aug 2022 06:24 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 1333310
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 83.204 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.2116 , -74.7831
Event Date: 11 Aug 2022 06:24 UTC
11 Aug 2022 01:24 Local
Exposed Population:
1000 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2022 07:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i9vv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),