Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Pujocucho in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pujocucho in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:01:28 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.46 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/06/16 / 2016-06-02 00:01:28 / June 2, 2016 @ 12:01 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20005zue. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005zue. Exact location of event, depth 15.46 km, -70.4347° West, -16.8394° South.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moquegua, Ilabaya, Torata. Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 36 km NNW of Pujocucho, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.4347° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.8394° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km NNW of Pujocucho, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-02 00:01:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-02 00:19:01	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	416	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	1.178	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us20005zue	Id of event.
Event Code	20005zue	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005zue,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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