M 4.9 in Peru on 03 Mar 2016 10:09 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 1081774
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 46.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.0928 , -74.012
Event Date: 03 Mar 2016 10:09 UTC
03 Mar 2016 05:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 42365 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Mar 2016 10:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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),