Overall Green Earthquake alert in Peru on 04 Jun 2013 08:29 UTC

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M 4.6 in Peru on 04 Jun 2013 08:29 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 1000077
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	110.4 Km
Lat/Lon:	-15.0155 , -71.8008
Event Date:	04 Jun 2013 08:29 UTC 04 Jun 2013 03:29 Local
Exposed Population:	333349 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Jun 2013 14:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-1		-1
	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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Latest media headlines

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