M 4.9 in Peru on 28 Jul 2020 16:40 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 1227986
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 79.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.8125 , -72.4395
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 16:40 UTC
28 Jul 2020 11:40 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b5es Scaled population (vector) 5.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Animals Sense Earthquakes Before They Happen. Can They Help Us Predict ... Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:58:00 +0200.

When the earthquake hit central Italy on Oct. 26, 2016, Martin Wikelski and his colleagues descended on the site in less than 24 hours. Wikelski , an ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, wanted to test a hunc
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Piedmont’s Lantern Projects continues doing lots with littleTue, 14 Jul 2020 22:53:00 +0200.

Lantern Projects founder Gail Uilkema has no favorites among the nonprofit humanitarian aid organization’s approximately 415 charitable projects. Reaching communities from more than 60 countries in the 17 years since its inception and with
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Google's Loon launches service in KenyaWed, 08 Jul 2020 04:26:00 +0200.

Loon says it's now providing service over a 50,000 square kilometer region to subscribers of Telkom Kenya, utilizing a fleet of around 35 balloons that are in constant motion in the stratosphere above eastern Africa. According to Loon, earl
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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),