M 5.1 in Peru on 17 Dec 2016 07:23 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 1101088
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 35.04 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.8715 , -78.8089
Event Date: 17 Dec 2016 07:23 UTC
17 Dec 2016 02:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2016 07:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200081ui Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 424 | About casualties: 39 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),