Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Tarata in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tarata in Peru on Sunday. Unique identifier: us10003vp7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003vp7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 164.98 km (103 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.4948 West, latitude -17.3693 South, depth = 164.98 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 08:13:37 / November 8, 2015 @ 8:13 am. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:13:37 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 108 km (67 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Desaguadero (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ilabaya, Tacna, Desaguadero (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 58 km ENE of Tarata, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.4948° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.3693° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	164.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km ENE of Tarata, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-08 08:13:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-08 08:43:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	433	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	1.281	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us10003vp7	Id of event.
Event Code	10003vp7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003vp7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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