M 5.8 in Near Coast Of Northern Peru on 29 Jul 2021 00:32 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 1279007
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 23 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.31 , -79.9208
Event Date: 29 Jul 2021 00:32 UTC
28 Jul 2021 19:32 Local
Exposed Population: 430000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2021 02:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f00e Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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

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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),