M 4.5 in Peru on 28 Mar 2017 00:35 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 1108816
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 86.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.5387 , -73.9902
Event Date: 28 Mar 2017 00:35 UTC
27 Mar 2017 19:35 Local
Exposed Population:
250000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2017 02:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20008v5u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),