Overall Green Earthquake alert in Peru on 28 Aug 2015 18:39 UTC

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M 4.7 in Peru on 28 Aug 2015 18:39 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 1064111
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	89.79 Km
Lat/Lon:	-12.1887 , -76.0794
Event Date:	28 Aug 2015 18:39 UTC 28 Aug 2015 13:39 Local
Exposed Population:	2466649 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Aug 2015 21:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.9		-0.9
	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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