Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag strikes near Tarauaca in Brazil

A earthquake with magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 130 km SSW of Tarauaca, Brazil (81 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 05:45:18 / November 26, 2015 @ 5:45 am. Exact location, longitude -71.2703° West, latitude -9.229° South, depth = 603.86 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 603.86 km (375 miles). Event id: us100041f1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041f1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:45:18 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 130 km SSW of Tarauaca, Brazil.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.2703° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.229° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	603.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	130km SSW of Tarauaca, Brazil	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-26 05:45:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-26 06:09:09	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	2	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	630	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	2.057	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 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	mwp	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100041f1	Id of event.
Event Code	100041f1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041f1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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