M 5.1 in Peru on 28 Mar 2024 04:05 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 1421481
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 146.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.9105 , -74.4412
Event Date: 28 Mar 2024 04:05 UTC
27 Mar 2024 23:05 Local
Exposed Population:
410 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2024 04:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8gh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),