M 4.5 in Peru on 16 Feb 2016 22:23 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 1080760
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 87.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.6514 , -72.9166
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 22:23 UTC
16 Feb 2016 17:23 Local
Exposed Population:
121466 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2016 22:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),