M 6 in Peru on 16 Jun 2024 14:47 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 1433409
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 19.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.9192 , -74.5392
Event Date: 16 Jun 2024 14:47 UTC
16 Jun 2024 09:47 Local
Exposed Population: 2 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 16 Jun 2024 15:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mstj 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, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),