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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tumbes in Peru

Posted by admin on September 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.3334S, -80.605WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Tumbes in Peru on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:16:02 / 3:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -80.605° West, -3.3334° South, depth 45.38 km. Id of earthquake: us20003pmn. Event ids that are associated: us20003pmn. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 08:16:02 / September 28, 2015 @ 8:16 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.38 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baláo, Máncora, Pasaje. The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Playas (c. 30 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Zarumilla (c. 16 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km NW of Tumbes, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.3334° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NW of Tumbes, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-28 08:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-28 12:27:12 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 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 354 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 4.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us20003pmn Id of event.
Event Code 20003pmn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003pmn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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