M 5 in Peru on 15 Sep 2025 01:52 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 1500251
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 94.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.7217 , -74.7966
Event Date: 15 Sep 2025 01:52 UTC
14 Sep 2025 20:52 Local
Exposed Population:
840 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2025 02:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qw8g Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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International tsunami alert issued as Russia hit by 7.8 magnitude eart.. 9/18/2025 8:39:00 PM.

It is not known if the submarines or airplanes were evacuated in time and there is little information so far about the overall damage caused by the earthquake. The US National Weather Service''s Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issu
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BREAKING Massive 7.8 earthquake hits Russia as urgent tsunami warning .. 9/18/2025 7:29:00 PM.

The quake has measured in at a whopping 7.8 on the Richter Scale, providing significant force and struck Russia''s city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, near the Kamchatka peninsula. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), the US Geolo
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5.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Peru 9/16/2025 10:37:00 AM.

Lima - Saba: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck Peru on Tuesday. There have been no reports of casualties or material damage. The U.S. Geological Survey stated that the earthquake occurred 31 kilometers (19 miles) from the Vilcanchos area, a
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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),