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Major earthquake, 7.5 mag strikes near Iberia in Peru

Posted by admin on November 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.5846S, -70.9656WA major earthquake magnitude 7.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 173 km WNW of Iberia, Peru (107 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Iberia in Peru (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt15328051, at00nycck1, us100040ww. Id of event: us100040ww. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 602.34 km (374 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -70.9656° West, -10.5846° South, depth 602.34 km. Global time and date of event 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 22:45:38 / November 24, 2015 @ 10:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 7.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:45:38 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. There are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 173 km WNW of Iberia, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.5846° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 602.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km WNW of Iberia, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-24 22:45:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-24 23:03:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 1 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 866 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 ,pt,at,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 3.315 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 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100040ww Id of event.
Event Code 100040ww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt15328051,at00nycck1,us100040ww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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