M 4.8 in Peru on 05 Jan 2023 03:38 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 1353145
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 117.625 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.5869 , -74.8881
Event Date: 05 Jan 2023 03:38 UTC
04 Jan 2023 22:38 Local
Exposed Population:
310 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2023 02:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j27d Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),