M 5.4 in Peru on 16 May 2017 17:09 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 1113153
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.5351 , -73.4102
Event Date: 16 May 2017 17:09 UTC
16 May 2017 12:09 Local
Exposed Population:
320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2017 17:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us10008ssf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),