A 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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