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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Ilo in Peru

Posted by admin on December 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.359S, -71.4065WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Ilo in Peru. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:58:13 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20004gmk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004gmk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.96 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.4065 West, latitude -18.359 South, depth = 26.96 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/15 / 2015-12-11 22:58:13 / December 11, 2015 @ 10:58 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pacocha, Ilo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 79 km S of Ilo, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4065° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.359° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km S of Ilo, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-11 22:58:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-26 02:48:58 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 211 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 1.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20004gmk Id of event.
Event Code 20004gmk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004gmk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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