M 5 in Peru on 20 Feb 2016 02:05 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 1080969
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7296 , -71.8033
Event Date: 20 Feb 2016 02:05 UTC
19 Feb 2016 21:05 Local
Exposed Population:
1074404 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2016 02:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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),