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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Tingo Maria in Peru


Earthquake location -9.3434S, -75.4232WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Tingo Maria in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.5 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20007guh. Event ids that are associated: us20007guh. The temblor was reported at 09:08:08 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 14:08:08 / October 26, 2016 @ 2:08 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.4232 West, latitude -9.3434 South, depth = 42.5 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tingo María (min 5000 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 four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 64 km E of Tingo Maria, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.4232° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.3434° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km E of Tingo Maria, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-26 14:08:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-26 14:51:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 385 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 2.974 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us20007guh Id of event.
Event Code 20007guh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007guh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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