M 5.5 in Peru on 23 Sep 2025 17:39 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 1501726
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 9 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7448 , -75.2904
Event Date: 23 Sep 2025 17:39 UTC
23 Sep 2025 12:39 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2025 17:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rcdc Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits off coast of Peru 9/24/2025 6:44:00 AM.

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of Peru at 17:39 GMT on Tuesday, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 15.67 degrees south lat
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Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes coast of southern Peru, EMSC says 9/24/2025 1:03:00 AM.

LIMA : An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the coast of southern Peru on Tuesday. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) provided the initial report on the seismic event. The quake occurred at a depth of 40 kilometres, whi
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5.6-magnitude quake hits near coast of Peru -- GFZ 9/23/2025 6:28:00 PM.

BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.
5.6-magnitude quake hits near coast of Peru -- GFZ 9/23/2025 6:16:00 PM.

BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted the near coast of Peru at 1739 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),