M 4.6 in Peru on 03 May 2021 20:47 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 1267372
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 115.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.0874 , -72.7012
Event Date: 03 May 2021 20:47 UTC
03 May 2021 15:47 Local
Exposed Population:
190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2021 21:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dzu1 Scaled population (vector) 5.12  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

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Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.6 just reported 14 km east of Barra ... Tue, 04 May 2021 10:56:00 +0200.

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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),