Overall Green Earthquake alert in Peru on 06 Mar 2016 13:06 UTC

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M 4.6 in Peru on 06 Mar 2016 13:06 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 1081967
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	9.54 Km
Lat/Lon:	-14.8822 , -76.0177
Event Date:	06 Mar 2016 13:06 UTC 06 Mar 2016 08:06 Local
Exposed Population:	321693 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Mar 2016 16:18 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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Fukushima, cinco años tras el desastre que se cobró la vida de 15.894 .. 3/10/2016 12:40:00 PM.

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Cinco años de después de Fukushima, miles de familias siguen desplazad.. 3/10/2016 12:38:00 PM.

MADRID, 10 (EUROPA PRESS) Cinco años después del devastador terremoto y posterior tsunami que golpeó Japón y desencadenó la peor tragedia nuclear en la historia del país, miles de familias y ancianos continúan desplazados sin poder regresar

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Se cumplen 5 años del terremoto de Fukushima en Japón 3/10/2016 12:27:00 PM.

La Sociedad de la Cruz Roja japonesa asegura que miles de familias y ancianos continúan desplazados cinco años después del terremoto y tsunami que devastó la cosa noreste de Japón. En un comunicado, la Cruz Roja dijo que unas 170.000 person

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Fukushima family pottery kilns reopen as trade returns following disas.. 3/10/2016 12:26:00 PM.

Takeshi Matsunaga comes from a family of potters in the town of Namie, in Fukushima on the north-eastern coast of Japan. Five years ago, on March 11, a magnitude 9 earthquake and the resulting tsunami killed nearly 16,000 people. Soon after

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