ACRE, BRAZIL-6.8

 

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Magnitude	Mw 6.8
Region	ACRE, BRAZIL
Date time	2019-01-05 19:25:39.2 UTC
Location	8.16 S ; 71.64 W
Depth	590 km
Distances	730 km NE of Lima, Peru / pop: 7,738,000 / local time: 14:25:39.2 2019-01-05 322 km E of Pucallpa, Peru / pop: 311,000 / local time: 14:25:39.2 2019-01-05 96 km W of Tarauacá, Brazil / pop: 16,600 / local time: 14:25:39.2 2019-01-05

Source parameters reviewed by a seismologist
https://youtu.be/KGPvdJoLAw8
https://apnews.com/78122fba366f4f60ad36eec4999512c0
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/01/05/world/americas/ap-lt-brazil-earthquake.html

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	6.8M
Depth:	575.27 Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.1428 , -71.5735
Event Date:	05 Jan 2019 19:25 UTC
Exposed Population:	About 47000 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us2000j0ja
Inserted at:	05 Jan 2019 19:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.1 (Brazil)

More information at:

 Instituto Geofísico del Perú Lima, Peru
 Instituto Geofisico Quito, Ecuador
 USGS/NEIC Denver, USA
 GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany