M 4.6 in Peru on 04 May 2021 08:01 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 1267431
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 113.52 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8486 , -76.552
Event Date: 04 May 2021 08:01 UTC
04 May 2021 03:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2021 08:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dzyk Scaled population (vector) 5.15  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 66 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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En aquel tiempo el servicio militar era obligatorio, pero se enroló voluntariamente. Necesitaba pensar su futuro. Desde el cuartel le pidió a un familiar que lo inscriba para postular a una carrera profesional. Sin avisarle, este familiar t
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Magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes near Pucallpa, Provincia de Coronel P ... Wed, 05 May 2021 10:15:00 +0200.

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Playas, Provincia del Guayas, Ecuador, was reported only 24 minutes ago by the Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School in Quito (IGEPN), considered the main national agency that monitors se
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Light mag. 4.5 earthquake - CENTRAL PERU on Wednesday, 5 May 2021 at 0 ... Wed, 05 May 2021 10:15:00 +0200.

Just 16 minutes ago, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Pucallpa, Provincia de Coronel Portillo, Ucayali, Peru. The tremor was recorded early morning on Wednesday 5 May 2021 at 2:47 am local time, at an intermediate to considerable dept
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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),