Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Acari in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 77 km SSE of Acari, Peru (48 miles). Exact location of event, depth 23.72 km, -74.2109° West, -16.0151° South. The temblor was picked up at 04:09:15 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.72 km (15 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 09:09:15 / June 29, 2015 @ 9:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002mb3. Unique identifier: us10002mb3.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km SSE of Acari, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.2109° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.0151° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77km SSE of Acari, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-06-29 09:09:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-06-29 09:32:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.59	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	465	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10002mb3	Id of event.
Event Code	10002mb3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002mb3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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